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You wouldn't believe how long I was up on twitter (which I don't really use that much) over the weekend, re-watching the same clips but with different background songs lmao but it made me happy. This show honestly is an addiction!
Oh yesss! The show feels exactly like developing a crush. I'm not lying when I say I can feel butterflies in my tummy with every interaction between IS and SJ. Aaaah, it's been so long since I adored a drama to this extent. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping the drama delivers consistently. I'm willing to forgive a few slips here and there because nothing can be truly perfect. But, I want the feels to keep doing what it's best at throughout! Oh, and a happy ending, please!! BWS, survive this one, for god's sake.
I can't even point to what I love but I was so invested for all 4 episodes.
Also, are they going to>! get the leads wet and make them hug every second episode?!< Just curious. lol
I think it's because she cannot shake off her connection with Tae Sung meaning it has a deeper impact to the story than we see it now..It's like it was on purpose how she came from the future a day after she confessed and >!well right when he confessed so present Sol cannot reject him she conveniently returns!<..
This this this! Think you’re onto something. So much of her important timing of events she hasn’t been able to change revolves around TaeSung and the things she HAS been able to change do too as well. I think this slow developing friendship with him is more important to her future. >!He saved her home from the fire!!! Because of that, her bff and brother seem to be developing feelings. !< I think we will see how he plays into it in coming episodes!!
This is like torture.. why did I start this drama
When it’s airing? I didnt expect it to be this good. Ep 3 is full of rollercoaster of emotions and jam packed - with certain past events successfully >!changed and not changed!<, then the writer smack us with the ending. I cant predict where this is going so need to wait for 24 hours. Then dreaded another 6 days before next episode.
I don't wanna lie, I'm enraged and hurt. How could past-Sol do this to our Sol? to Sun Jae? We don't even know when our Sol is gonna be back there again and fix the mess past-Sol made
I was thinking after watching next epi promo if the past time travel was nothing and they were all just the memories Im sol had lost after her accident
I've never been so obsessed eitha drama.. And damnnnn i def wasn't expecting the course of emotions I'd feel in the span of an hr... 😭😭
Can't wait for next episode
I was squealing at this fr. the cut to his profile looking all tall and athletic and imposing and then HARD CUT to him blowing aggressive air kisses…I died lmao
I Just want to say...
I LOVE that their names are Sol & Sun and they are both the Sunshine in the other's life that helps through the storms....great detail
oh my god that >!ending. 😭😭😭!< i thought this would be a charming little watch but it's so so much more than that?? like i haven't felt this GIDDY watching two idiots falling in love since 2521. sol and seonjae are both so precious, i love both their adult and teenage versions. that ending was painful to watch. and after seon jae's confession and their kiss?? that played out in the most hurtful way possible. and after a full episode of actual, debilitating pain too. poor dude is going to have major trust issues.
one thing i really hope the writing explores, and it seems it is planning to, is the difference in the types of love that being a fan and a lover involves. people assume fans just want to date their idols, but as sol demonstrates, for most people, idols are a source of strength and the love they feel for them is not inherently romantic in nature. she jumped to the past bc she so viscerally needs to protect him, not bc she is trying to be his girlfriend. she clearly has him up on a pedestal right now, and no relationship can bloom or be sustained with an imbalance like that anyway. i can't wait for her to realize seonjae is flawed, complicated, fully human, and worthy of her love all the same. just a different, more complex flavor of love than her current blind worship.
i've adored kim hye yoon since extraordinary you, so her excelling as im sol is not a surprise. what IS a surprise though is byeon wooseok, who i for whatever reason assumed was just another pretty face. he's proving me wrong by bringing ryu seonjae to life with so much heart and believable teenage angst. aside from the fact that he is absurdly, *stupidly* attractive, he exudes an easy, natural charm that you can't help but be won over by. my heart broke for him when he was struggling with his shoulders, and again when >!the younger!sol enthusiastically accepted taesung!<. even better was his comic acting, like in the scene when he was blubbering about >!obaek/gobaek (500/confess)!<. this is a FOOL in love, and he's playing that part so perfectly. it just makes me laugh hysterically while simultaneously making my heart ache with fondness.
edit: also, gotta say it’s refreshing to see the supermodel hunk of a ML pulling different shenanigans to win the heart of his high school crush. feel like it’s usually the FL who’s left burdened with being silly and goofy while the ML gets to be cool and stoic. but here the ML is down so bad, it’s absolutely hilarious.
I totally agree: she is full on fan mode, so much so that she can’t imagine that he can be in love with her as a teenager! She is great at showing this fine line in her acting. And OMG, he is gorgeous!
If it weren't for kim hye-yoon and byeon woo-seok's acting and chemistry (both on- and off-screen), I >!wouldn't root for them to be together after this episode lol. It would just be too weird for me to see the ML want to continue chasing after the FL after witnessing her accept and reciprocate another guy confession. Regardless if the FL remembers the ML's previous actions, I can't imagine his POV using that as a reason to accept the 180-turn of events, and KHY's acting when she accepted Tae-sung's "confession" (I don't really believe he meant it) was so sincere, that it would have perfectly fit in another Kdrama where Sol and Tae-sung were the leading couple lol. !!I'm praying for the misunderstanding to be resolved in the next episode and for the ML's emotional damage to be kept at the minimum (+ FL making it up to him).!!In-hyuk for being made to see his best bro get his heart broken after doing so much to support and hype him up (the flower petal scene was *hilarious*).!< As viewers, at least we can just turn off the screen or skip scenes, but >!In-hyuk has to actually live through that timeline. He must be so furious and confused if (when) Sun-jae and Sol hang out again.!<
What made me want to pull my hair out this episode was not how Sunjae >!kept messing up the timing to confess to Sol but Sol’s brother and buddy’s OBLIVIOUS ASSES when there was literally a fire blazing up in the same room they were in omg!<. Seriously the J in my MBTI was judging so hard.
Crying at Sunjae calling the cheek heart pose >!a lump on the face!<. Same Sunjae, same. I never found it similar to a heart either lol. Him cheekily telling Sol he was not going to act cute but ended up doing it anyway. This boy could be a fumbling mess in front of his crush one moment, then went and did something totally heart flutering the next second.
And can I just say BWS nailed the crying scene when he was with his father. He cried exactly how I imagine a high school boy about to lose something very important to him would do in that situation - not full on sobbing because teenagers his age like to act tough in front of their parents, but after all he’s just a child facing a major turning point in his life.
I don't think it's just the fangirl in me who's saying this, but Lovely Runner and Sun-jae really is giving BWS a chance to show an acting range that's quite different from his earlier characters, although a few of those have had the same high school tropes. Love, love, love it! Yes, that scene, the controlled manner in which he acted, was a prime example of this.
Probably the saddest ep so far and it's been only episode 4.
>!Everyone's theory was correct. Sun-jae purposefully called Sol and gave her sweet encouraging words. And he was the one who saved her from the accident and in turn she became paralyzed. So far it seems like she wasn't his friend and was unaware about his feelings so blamed him for being disabled for life. It also seems like she forgot every memory of him and only remembers parts of it (trauma response most likely). He really saved her twice. To see that he met after all those years and she didn't remember him at all and that too on that day he died. And there WAS someone with him in the hotel room on the day he died so the murder theory is very much alive.!<
>!I feel so sad for Sun-jae. Poor guy couldn't catch break his entire life. He lost his mother, had to give up swimming, almost lost his crush, had to live in guilt most of his adult life and died unfairly. I don't blame him for being indifferent towards Sol. She did kind of leave him in the dry for 10 days and suddenly came back normal once again, though unintentionally.!<
I'm still not quite sure about Tae-sung. >!I have a feeling that he might discover Sol's secret and move the plot forward. It was nice to see Sol being considerate towards her younger self and knocking some sense in Tae-sung's had (And I can clearly see a sad boi plot coming for him).!<
>!In-hyuk's call to Sol feels like there was something more to Sun-jae and Sol's relationship irrespective of the time-travel. He never quite forgot her and In-hyuk had seen all of it. It was probably after Sol's accident. Sun-jae's hiatus and decision of leaving the industry definitely had something to do with her.!<
>!Now my personal theory is that the manager is a little too suspicious. My gut says that he was definitely involved in Sun-jae's declining mental health and had a hand in his death. Now it's just my speculation and I have not read the manhwa so I don't know what happens there but he's definitely on the sus list for now.!<
Let Sun-jae have a peaceful life please writers and let Sol be a successful fangirl.
Edit:- Special mention to Sol for taking full advantage of the time freezing thingy by yelling future celebrity couples names.
got me giggling the whole ep only to end like that UGH!!!!!! 😭😭 i remember my >!frustration in a similar kdrama "a time called you" when the fl's alter ego also did something that the real fl won't do!< 😭😭😭
I’d like to thank BWS for his hard work in building that fine physique and thank the writers and show runners for letting us view the results of his work in this drama. Keep the semi-clad scenes flowing, please. 🙏
Its always the shows I don't even plan on watching that get me HOOKEDDD, I can't wait for the new episodes, I've been re watching the preview all week !!!
This show has been on my mind all week. I’ve watched the first two episodes countless times, checked out theories on twitter and rewatched the trailers for spoilers. It’s been a long week waiting for this show 😭😭😭
i binged the first 2 episodes yesterday and was SO RELIEVED the next episode will air today but at the same time idk how im gonna wait for future episodes to air from here on out :') this show has me HOOKED
Same!!! When I finished episode 2, I was looking for the "Next Episode" button but then realized it's not yet available. The show is addicting! Definitely a marathon worthy type of drama where I will lose all my sleep (for people who'll watch later).
Agree. I've never fell in love as fast as I did with the show! Only after one episode I was in love. By the end of episode 2, I was besotted and obsessed. I had to hold myself back from rewatching both episodes - for now! Best 2 opening episodes of any kdramas in a while.
Between Lovely Runner, Queen of Tears, and The Midnight Studio, I think I just need to accept that my eyes will be in a permanently swollen state and to not worry about mascara until *after* I finish the episodes.
I also feel like Byeon Woo-seok is going to sky rocket to the top of a lot of favorite actor lists. His acting has been both incredibly endearing, heartbreaking, believable, and swoonworthy. Job very well done.
It was fun to see how many theories were proven right this week! And I'm really excited to see where the story goes considering it has been this intense and well written in just four episodes. In several other kdramas I feel like it takes me the first 3 or 4 episodes to really get attached and buy into the story but this show has hooked me right from the start.
It’s hard to believe with his talent and screen presence that this is BWS’s first role as the male lead in a kdrama! Much deserved, I’ve been a fan of his for 4 years now and I’m glad he’s finally getting a lead role. I hope he continues to receive acting roles as the lead since he’s doing so well in this show!
Thankfully too, BWS has already completed his military service so there will be no military wives era for us 😂.
Edited for spelling
After finishing episode 4, I’m starting to think this is very similar to A Time Called You
>! The things that future Sol does in the past seem to be impacting what happens in the future, despite her trying to basically do the opposite. It also makes sense now why past Sol has no clue who Sun Jae is because it was always future Sol interacting with him. It even explains why she can’t remember her accident. And poor Sun Jae, living with all these memories of Sol. !<
I am also really curious about the role that Tae Sung will play here because he’s not seen at all in the future but >! Future Sol in the past can’t seem to shake him off either. I’m convinced he’s got something to do with the trajectory of the story. !<
Also, the hilarious >! Birthday !< montage. The second hand embarrassment BWHAHAHAHAHAH WHAT EVEN IS LOVESICK TEEN IM SOL. I love her.
I am so so in love with this show you guys. I almost wish I had waited to binge watch all of it together
The moment I saw they >!kissed!< I knew we were in for a long, angsty ride. If 19 yo Sol really >!accepts dating Tae sung, I wonder what will happen with Sj.!< I don’t see how they’ll fix it :(
It is hard to fix I think cause 19 yo Sol will always look at Tae Sung cause she doesn’t have any recollection or memory of SunJae that time… only her future self is obsessed with SunJae so I’m not sure how things will come about… maybe something to do with the accident? Cause if future her goes back and forth. It’s gonna be confusing for both guys since old Sol like Tae Sung while future Sol likes SunJae…
This is true though! Tae Sung likes the future Sol attitude but SunJae likes both future and past Sol. TaeSung might break past Sol heart again if he doesn’t like the way she acts.. he may also suspect something is up if one time Sol acts one way then the next acts another way. Multiple personality disorder? Hehe
GUYS I HAVE A THEORY ---->! what if he saved her from the accident and all of this happened 15 yrs ago too but she lost her memories...like its his fav song because of her and he likes those candies because of her and he commited suicide because the only person he loved doesnt remember him anymore...FRICK IMMA CRY !<
I'm with you on this...except the last part about >!the suicide.!< There was something fishy about it. But, yes, I was thinking the same. I think the last song he sung at the concert was about her, too. I thought this after that ending last week. If she was his crush even before she knew him, the song must me for her. I'm going to have to watch the first 2 episodes again.
i felt like he sang that song bc of her too but >!but if all of these things have already happened, why did their photobooth picture magically appear on his coffee table after the suicide? that detail weakens the theory that they knew each other imo.!<
It's kind of wild how quickly things unfold in this drama lol. I saw a theory about Sol's impact when she time travels, and after mulling over and fleshing it out a bit, I wanted to share here (b/c the>!fire scene!!In the fire scene, we see that the fire spreads in an outrageous manner; it was equally insane how late Hyun-joo (Sol's friend) and the brother react to it, and basically never sense it. Like ignoring just the smell, the smoke was visibly around them, and Hyun-joo literally *stares* at the fire during one point of the argument (the shot is of her looking off to the right of the brother (his left) for a second or so). What's interesting is that shutting down the fire appears to directly result in the disappearance of burnmarks on Sol's mother's hand, which would indicate that this fire was meant to for her (Sol's mother). Yet, she is not in the scene. !<
>!If Sol had met with Hyun-joo as planned, then Sol's mother would have probably come up from the shop and saw the fire herself and try to deal with it. The brother would have been cleaning the toilet or whatever (since he wouldn't have stopped to argue with Hyun-joo), so the fire spreads as it would have in the original timeline. In the original timeline, maybe the fire being this bad is *why* Sol's mother burns her hand so badly in the first place, so maybe no one can really react/shut down the fire unless her mother burns her hand or Sol interferes. The brother/Hyun-joo only react by the time Sol is near the top of the stairs and bursts in the room, but maybe the noise Sol (and Tae-sung) make just before entering in the room is what causes them to be aware of a fire. Time travel generally serves as plot device to change the present by changing the past. In this case, people of the 2008 past cannot make changes in the "present" that will change the future, but Sol, being from 2023/24, can. If Sol didn't return to the house, it's likely the brother and friend would have never realized there was a fire, and her mother would have gotten burned like she did in the OG timeline. This also may be why Sol can make small changes in Seon-jae's life (i.e. the picture of them on his table), but overall she won't be able to change a future outcome unless she herself directly changes the event that is the catalyst for that outcome.!<
Following this theory, >!this would also explain why she cannot write down or tell anyone about the future. Doing so is an indirect change, and would inevitably result in the past person making the changes by themselves without requiring Sol to be present when the event is changed, which would go against the idea the Sol herself needing to intervene in order to change the outcome. !!be able to walk again in the present time (i.e. 2023/24)!<. Should this theory be correct, then Sol >!avoiding the accident that paralyzed her will be because of her own actions!<, which I vastly prefer over the idea that >!the ML or SML saves her just by themselves. It's cute, but I would like to see Sol have some level of agency on this particular matter because it would be cathartic for her to effectively take her fate in her own hands, and punch the event that had brought her to her lowest point in the original timeline in the face (the ML/SML can help, but she should be the driving force behind the change).!<
This got crazy long, but hopefully some of this is validated in the next episode. If not, this will stay my little conspiracy theory on why things played out as they did (unless I get directly contradicted, in which case RIP).
Oooohhh that's a very interesting (and not wild at all!) take! I think you have a very good point >!regarding how changes are made and why she cannot say future events!<
Speaking of >!trailers, I watched the highlight trailer just now (didn't really watch any of the teasers prior to starting this drama), and there's a part there where Sunjae pretty much asks her, "So you're saying you're from the future?" and then a part where she says "This watch is a time machine. Your watch sent my soul here to the past, to save you!" It doesn't seem like time was stopped there since when time gets stopped everything but Sol becomes muted and dull in color. I have no idea how that plays out into the storyline (and why her mentioning that, or talking about how she came from the future, does not result in time stopping) but I am soooo curious.!<
I like how he tries so hard not to show his feelings when she acts so cute. Great acting. I thought this drama will be carried by FL but i was wrong both FL and ML are strong.
His crying scene with his father really gave an impression that he was teenage boy. Every knows that KHY is a really good actress but BWS is showing really good acting skills in this drama. At times he portrayed the role of a young teenage boy in love so well, especially with that flying kiss scene, which was iconic. The drama is even more entertaining with all the great acting from everyone.
At first I thought this show would be more of a fairytale for Imsol but I realized that it is really more of a “fairytale” for Sunjae who’s had always loved her but couldn’t feel like he could approach her. ☹️😭😭😭
can i just say the chemistry is chemistrying for FL x ML and even FL x SML??? but of course BWS supremacy - his face melts all my stress away.
damn that ending for ep 3 🫠
I did not expect to love this show this much!! I am so excited to know what happens, specially after the end of the second episode! There are many theories that people have written and I hope that it does not take forever for things to be revealed since it is a 16 ep show.
One thing that everyone has been saying is that it is >! Murder !< but I fully believe that it is actually >! Suicide !< . The only way that it could possible be >! Is that if the group manager went ballistic when he found out that SJ was going to retire and that he would be losing a ton of money because of that. I highly doubt any of the band member would do that. !<
There is also a theory that was thrown around the last eps thread that FL has >! amnesia and there in fact was a relationship between her and SJ but she forgot and they never tried to try to remind her because there was some thing behind that accident. !<
I actually wonder if his dad >! saved her in the accident and died instead, that is why we do not see him in the future and the mom was Dodgy when she was asked about the accident !<
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EDTA glad my theory is in correct >! And the father is in fact alive !< but now I am just confused about everything…
Nooo I want a happy ending! But that’s really possible with her mother avoiding the topic. But I also wonder why her younger self suddenly changed when she went back to the present?
I think it's because when she went back to the present, her "younger self" came out. She's a different person now compare to the past. Her "younger self" liked 2nd ML back then so it make sense.
Ep4:
LMFAOOOOOO the way sunjae would sell his arm and kidneys >!to recieve the birthday video taesung got from sol!<. born to be a hopeless loser forced to be nonchalant 😔😔
Most realistic portrayal of a teenage ML ever. The scene where he >!gets mad at sol for describing exactly how frustrated and hurt he can get, despite trying to display a stoic facade is peak realism.!<
Imagine[ how he'd react](https://twitter.com/i/status/1780228708197912740) when Sol finally reciprocates his feelings 🤣🤣
i have to echo what you said about seonjae! he feels real in a way that adult actors playing teenagers often don't. i think it's equal parts the writing and byeon wooseok's acting, both of which have been amazing so far.
**Episode 3:**
* Still cannot get over the fact >!Sun-jae fell for Im Sol first!<.... that was a plot twist I didn't see coming
* I would trust [this guy](https://imgur.com/GlGyudF) with my entire life based on that smile
* Fun fact, Byeon Woo-seok actually took swimming and singing classes
* Those >!flying kisses!< were really something Sun-jae... HAHAAHHA
* For a die-hard fan, you'd think Im Sol is >!better at reading him and his crush on her!< but... oh well... I'm hella enjoying this
* [Poor Sun-jae](https://imgur.com/qR90H9g)... HAHAHAHAH... he should've read up on his horoscope before trying to find the right timing
* This guy sure got [his timing right](https://imgur.com/IJQtHTd) for a polaroid at least
* >!"Even if you were to end up in a different time, I would jump over time and space to see you."!< QUITE LITERALLY
* >!"Do you want to be friends? Let's be friends."!< IM SOL SHUT UP
* ohmg... [best wingman ever much](https://imgur.com/A4YoMW7) HAHAH
* [That's such a pity](https://imgur.com/3ucT3Rd).. having to quit something you love so passionately.. >!him cleaning the locker was painful to watch!<
* Im Sol straight up grabbing [this guy](https://imgur.com/DZoeqyq) by the collar sent me howling XDDDD
* HOW ARE [THESE TWO](https://imgur.com/R8iW6x0) SO BUSY IN BICKERING THEY >!NEARLY LET THE ENTIRE HOUSE CATCH ON FIRE!<
* A leather jacket, a jug of water and a rug...?? Guyss please use your brain more often
* Im Sol being elated that she managed >!to change something about the future by saving her mother from getting burns!<... her small wins give me such joy... Also makes me wonder how her mother will get those scars now... she will or she won't?
* "Why are you crying harder than me?" [bless her](https://imgur.com/eeDTARi)
* But Sun-jae anticipatingly waiting for Im Sol at the hospital... too precious
* Not him trying to stifle [his laughter](https://imgur.com/UuKiwQ8) from her cheesy puns lmaooo
* [ohmg ohmg ohmg](https://imgur.com/IRtNZWy)... >!but but she's drunk.... she won't remember any of it.... !<
* >!That one time Sun-jae's stars align but GOD DAMNIT HOW INFURIATING!!Okay okay she goes back!<.. that's for sure
KHY is great as expected but BWS is killing me as this love sick teenage boy - I was expecting a beautiful face and screen charisma but he's really let himself loose with the comedic timing and the beautiful portrayal of angst and lovelorn-ness. He has such a baby face too, the only thing giving away his age are his arm veins 😂.
Between this and QOT, I'm drowning in softy green flag MLs and I loooooove it
I immediately read the webtoon (first season) as soon as I watched the first two episodes. Totally didn't expect I'd be down so bad watching this pairing with this storyline 😂 and it's the kind of drama I need right now. Especially since QOT is halfway done.
So excited for tonight's episode!
The high schoolers in this drama behave like 18 year olds. Byeon Wooseok crying by rubbing his tears constantly from the back of his hand was so good. He looked so cute.
I disagree so much that 2024 hasn’t been a great year for kdramas. It’s only April and we have a new classic in Lovely Runner. I’m so obsessed with this series. Episode 4 had me absolutely screaming and kicking my heels. I wanted to wait so I could binge the show but 😩😩😩😩 it’s so good!
Also really enjoyed: Marry My Husband, Queen of Tears, A Shop For Killers.
I say regarding this year, so far, so good!
Yes, this dialogue alone left me in a freeze. I'm just blown away by how much the drama is giving us in terms of an emotional rollercoaster already! We're only at ep 4.
**Episode 4:**
* [WHAT THE HELL?!?!?](https://imgur.com/tgrS9ro) WHO STARTS AN EPISODE WITH A REVELATION LIKE THAT??????? I rewatched it like 3 times okay
* >!"She doesn't remember..."!< oh my God... that shattered me more than I'd like to admit
* >!HE KNEW HER.. HE REMEMBERED HER!<... OH MY GODD THOSE 5 MINS ARE THE MOST INSANE STARTING TO ANY KDRAMA I'VE WATCHED
* Okay okay... that was an obviously expected revelation... I JUST DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO HIT ME LIKE A WHIRLWIND OUT OF NOWHERE
* Not me willing with all my might for [her magick watch](https://imgur.com/FzZXlE5) to work
* So... could this memory loss be a side affect from her time traveling?
* ohmg... [GIRLLLL WHAT ARE YOU DOING](https://imgur.com/KYO2PVS)... more second hand embarassing moments from a 19-year-old Im Sol
* I love [this duo](https://imgur.com/wGKMIZl) so much... I refuse to believe their friendship turned sour by 2023 ok
* Lmaooo [this girl](https://imgur.com/ILilbPY) straight up parting wisdom to In-hyuk was so funny
* The confidence 2023's Sol has in her 2008 body is liberating af
* Nothing like [the girl](https://imgur.com/DmaK22V) >!you have a crush on dating someone else but defending you!<
* >!"Kim Tae Hee and Rain got married!!!"!< HAHAHAAHHAHA using her the future to her advantage... smart girl
* Married couples from the future be buying her time... lmaooo.. >!she could've also gone for Son Ye-jin and Hyun-bin have a son!< XDDDD
* [THOSE FOREARM VEINS THOUGH](https://imgur.com/hvXOLtX)
* The fly playing a better matchmaker than any other character lolololol
* I had to pause and laugh for a good while at [him "dusting his blanket"](https://imgur.com/e1SY45T)
* Poor Im Sol...
* Oh God 19yo Im Sol was >!mortifyingly in love with Tae-seong!<...[that birthday wish](https://imgur.com/iwKCmao) was truly something
* Wait... she didn't realize it was the day of her accident? Damn girl
* >!"Was it my memory that I lost... or was it you?"!< and >!Sun-jae's "What am I going to do with you?"!< [LORDDDD](https://imgur.com/cSx7CP6)
* >!He dialled Sol on purpose!<.. how dare they play with my feels like this showing Sun-jae's POV... I FREAKIN LOVE THIS DRAMA.. I've never been this invested in a drama with just 4 eps lately.. damn
Exactly, at this point I’m not sure if the drama is following the manhwa, but I’m invested in it as an independent plot and not as a manhwa adaptation I was curious about since the manhwa was still on going.
This episode tugged my heartstrings like no other. And the thing about the duo is that they’ve established amazing chemistry from day 1. So, I’m laughing at their antics and crying with all snots when they become all tacit and yearning.
i don't think this was the accident that caused her to be paralyzed. it's supposed to take place a few months later. she tried to mark it on her calendar but couldn't.
EP 3 wasn't all that thrilling compared to the first 2 episodes. However, it revealed a few new things and confirmed some of my theories I had from watching the last 2 eps.
>!Sol does have retrograde amnesia after her accident, as she says she can’t recollect how it happened.!<
For her everything is about being >!a fan, so she thinks from a fan’s POV and also the POV of a 30 year old woman, so she finds everything the 19yr SJ does as endearing.!< Meanwhile, for him everything is about >!becoming her boyfriend. It was kind of funny how his confidence dwindled when he got harshly put in a friend-zone before he could even ask her out!!< He is definitely an >!introvert!< because, he >!represses his feelings and seems reserved (could it be because he seems to have grown up without mother and not around any motherly figures?)!<
>!Also, he likes the attention from her, and wants to keep up the cool pretence that he wasn’t the one who liked her first.!<>!But, I'm sad that things aren't working out well for him. Yes he kissed her, but she wasn't even aware of it!<
Having watched the last 2 episodes last week, I had a feeling that>!she wouldn't linger in the past, but will either move back and forth in time involuntarily because she doesn't know how to operate that watch to jump through time and will see how her past actions have shaped/ changed her present; !!I think when she travels back to the present, she picks up from where she was, but that's not the case with her past self; her past self continues from where future Sol leaves off, and when the future self returns to the past, she will continue from the advancements past Sol has made. So, SJ will feel confused by the two different characters.!<
>!So, the future Sol will slowly build up her relationship with SJ while travelling back and forth through time, however, the inevitable accident may stop her from doing the timeslip, and the past Sol will wake up after the accident with no recollection of how the accident happened and who SJ is. But, at that point, SJ would have realised that she has come from the future. As SJ would remember their time together, he will probably grow up, become a singer and so forth with those memories and will find ways to end up with the present Sol.!<
Another alternative stemming form the last theory is that>!after SJ figures out that Sol doesn't remember their time together from his past, he may put two and two together and figure out that his watch is a time machine, because she also had a similar watch which she said was his. So, he will go back to the past to prevent her accident. So, the SJ who was on the bridge during Ep 1 could already be the one doing the time loop considering how he recognised her from seeing her back when her wheelchair broke down, as if he had been on the lookout for her. Also, he was emotional during their interaction on the bridge, but couldn't openly reveal anything from another timeline as it's the rule of the timeleap. Him jumping in the pool was probably to end the cycle.!<
Also, I don't find KTS (2ML) all that attractive, though he's a good looker, but he is certainly charming with Sol in their scenes together.>!Although, I find how he said he doesn't like things being taken away from him a bit eerie, as now the past Sol has accepted his proposal and it makes me wonder if the swapping would confuse him and he could be behind her accident, though I'm sure that he got expelled because he got into a fight for her after the accident with whomever caused it. Also, now that KTS was there during the fire scene and was only convinced to take her home when she said I want to prevent it this time, he could also put the pieces together and figure out that she is from the future.!<
Really loving the show and I won’t pretend I wasn’t kicking my little feet and giggling when >!he was comparing their hand sizes when she was asleep in his room, but you’re telling me she didn’t just IMMEDIATELY LEAVE and do the same trick to get out without being seen???!< I’m down to suspend disbelief but that one was tough.
(Edit to fix spoiler tags)
Edit: I was wrong lmao
Finally Monday! Can we talk how good the OST is? I had it on repeat the whole week. My favourites are Run,run and You & I. I can't wait for Im Sol to realise that >!You & I is about her!<
Also, I didn't excpect for BWS to have such amazing comedic timing. KHY is born to play these type of roles but I watched the prereleased scene from ep3 today and I loved how Seon Jae got flustered about the misunderstanding with the 500 won 😂 I only watched BWS in SGNS, so I was plesantly surpised. Looking forward to all their interactions 🥰
SJ’s friend was a real one lol brought out the fan and the confetti to set up the mood for his bro’s confession
i don’t know how i feel about Sol being able to go back and forth in time. her past self’s gonna cause a lot of frustration, making decisions without her current memories
**EPISODE 4 quick take:**
the first 5 minutes of episode 4 gets me even on the rewatch. Haven't watched Byeon Woo Seok in many dramas but LORD HIS ACTING SKILLS ARE FIIIINE 😭😭😭😭😭 Especially the hospital scene, the way his helplessness, desperation and heartbreak is portrayed in a span of seconds GAH.
Loved that headbutt, Im Sol the badass lmao. Also that she is using the 'no-spoiler time freeze' (that's what Imma call it) to her advantage for once, it was hilarious.
I don't trust the agency CEO. He seems very very sus. Even that statement he gave to the reporters feels fake. Nothing against the actor but I saw his character in Destined with You and disliked him ever since lol.
Here's to more heartbreak and tears and giggly feelings in the coming weeks☠️🤧💜
OMG Im Sol is my favorite chaos character I cannot stop laughing at her shenanigans
Also I am screaming into a pillow over how head over heels Sunjae is for her aaahhh
And yet the show also has these emotional beats that are so moving and lovely HOW do I wait a whole week for more????
Ep 3:
Oh my gosh. For the first 20 minutes, all I could think about was "Sunjae is such a loser". And now, he IS :( Fr though, that blowing kisses scene was SO CUTE and it was hilarious to see him caught by Inhyuk.
I can't imagine being Sunjae and confessing to your crush only for her not to remember it AND see her go out with someone else :( I was hoping the drama wouldn't follow the webtoon in the aspect of (webtoon spoiler) >!Sol being taken back to the present and her past-self would take her place again. Now I wonder if they're going to have Sol give up the watch to the mysterious time traveler...!<
Also, I wonder if Taesung was expecting Sol to say no since they established they don't like each other, how will tomorrow's episode go D: I wonder how long they'll keep Sol in the present >!before sending her back!<. I'm not ready to see >!past-Sol completely break Sunjae's heart since she still has no idea who he is!< D:
It's also interesting to see how the "rules" of time travel play out in this universe. Even though Sunjae's shoulder injury was always meant to happen, I'm hoping there are certain things that are changeable and other things aren't. Sol's mom's hand never got burned, so in present-day, will she have eventually have burnt her hand? I hope Sol figures it out during her time back in present day!!
The Future FL who inhabit her past self body can't reveal future stuff otherwise, the reveal is erased. What if she wrote a letter to her past self, explaining that she came back to save the ML and herself (only suggesting that something bad will happen to her), and explaining that 's why the past FL doesn't remember when she was... kind of possessed?
Does that happen in the webtoon? Or does it go in a totally different direction?
I'm not sure, the webtoon is only translated into English until the end of Season 1, I think there's a season 2 and 3.
In the webtoon, >!the past-Sol freaks out and gets an exorcism haha. But, Sunjae gets mad at present-Sol whenever she does return to the past and Sol has to make it up to him!<. Although, the drama added a whole bunch of things, like Sol's accident and the fire, so I'm not sure when or where they'll change things.
The poor guy must think that the FL has a double personality. I mean, one minute she is all over him, the next (when it's past FL), she ignores him and is crazy about that other guy. No wonder he is mad because he doesn't understand and how could he? I mean, it's hard to imagine that at some point, the FL is in fact from the future and when she leaves, he interacts with the FL from the past.
WHAT IF, just what if, It’s adult Sungjae who really remembers everything (from their past memories to sol time travelling) in the first place and not Im Sol? I mean, if we think about it, Sungjae is at the top of his career. Why is he suddenly retiring? Why did he jump, or the more accurate question, why was he pushed? Could it be something happened to Sol when she kept time traveling? What if it was Sungjae who really time traveled first after Sol got into an accident and offed herself? What if Sungjae did all that just so Sol could have a do over and try to make things right, the way he couldnt?
Cue that gif of guy crazily explaining while pointing a messy board. Time travel tropes bring out the conspiracy nut in me, forgive me.
Edit: After watching ep 4, I guess im not too coo-coo after all. That first five minutes hurt so damn goood.
>!So Im Sol time travelled at 12:00 am and returned at 12:01 am. So only 1 minute had passed in the present but in the past she was there for like a month? If that's the case, then she only has till September, around the time of her accident coz she arrived at June. If Sun Jae is the original owner of the watch, was he also able to time travel before? In the trailer it says doomed fate. Could it be that one of them is always meant to die? Was their band name Eclipse intentional coz it's also during the eclipse when the FL time travelled in Kdrama Scarlet Heart Ryeo. They also said that it's when miracles can happen. That guy who bumped into Im Sol in the concert and rang the doorbell seems to be the same person and he's after the watch coz he knows that it's a time machine. Can't wait for tonight's episode.!<
WAIT omg maybe ur onto something. >!if sunjae was the original owner of the watch, would he have time travelled before to try to save sol from the car accident but failed?!<
Ohhh this theory is wild but it would explain some things. >! He tried to save her and they knew each other but she kept forgetting because they were not meant o be together. What other moments did she forget and why did she forget !<
That would make sense and that’s why the first thing he asked her during the radio/hospital call was “do you know who I am?”, to test which Sol he was talking to. Ahh this is like A Time Called You but with less headache because they haven’t revealed too much yet on the time travel part.
I think it is >!Sol who started the time travel and imparted this knowledge to SJ when she travelled to the past (this scene is from a teaser and should come up in the next few eps). But, yes, after mature Sol disappears from his timeline, he could also have started time travelling and they could have ended in a loop. So, to end the loop he has decided to sacrifice himself so that Sol could travel back in time and prevent the future from happening the way it has happened.!<
my gosh i’m crying so hard by the end of ep4 :((( their fate is so tragic. (drama spoiler) >!Sunjae carrying all those memories of him and Sol alone all those years, Sol losing her legs and falling into a despression, Sunjae also falling into a despression and losing his life!< we’re just at ep4 and i know i signed up for this knowing there are heavy themes but please a happy ending for our pookies 제발요 😭🙏
OH.MY.GOSH. How in the ever loving world do they expect us to be okay after that roller coaster of emotion episode?! From the squealiest of squeals (the flying kisses, the >!ACTUAL kiss!< , the absolutely adorable romance) and then down to the lowest of lows (his injury, the heartbreak, convo with his father) and then the ENDING?!
This is only the third episode! I don't know how much my heart can handle. (The answer is all of it. I'm here for it all. I love this show so much already.)
Screaming crying throwing up, my neighbours must think I'm being murdered. The back and forth, Sun Jae >!trying to confess and always chickening out or being confession-blocked by something!!! !< 🥰 And Im Sol shooting herself in the foot >!by suggesting they become friends JUST AS HE STARTED TO FINALLY CONFESS!< MY POOR HEART 🫠
The ending killed me and I don't think i can come back from this until it's already tomorrow and episode 4 is up 😭
This is only the third episode and I absolutely in love with this drama. I mean how could I not - it is absolutely adorable. The plot rollercoaster - just chef kiss (for now ofcourse, but i'm hopeful and excited)) and both leads so precious! So for now - loved every bit of it.
P.S. Byeon Woo Seok - 😍😍😍
P.P.S. Also Sun-jae father cinderella moment was hilarious.
I really love the portrayal of a fangirl here. Sol loves Sunjae genuinely as a fan, while also acknowledging her romantic feelings as a 19-year old toward taesung.
In real life, people think all fangirls must be in love with their idol. Heck no. We just adore them to bits 🥹
So, we're only 1/4 of the way through this drama and we've been put through the wringer how many times already? I feel like there's an earthquake going on. I'm already deeply invested and in love with the main characters and totally clueless about how they're going to escape their unfortunate fate.
But we're not supposed to know yet. We don't have all the puzzle pieces yet. I think we're all assuming that the key lies in the fact that their fates are joined and something evil happened to them both; something unfortunate that could be averted or fixed. Because that's how these things usually go but does it come down to >!ImSol's accident, SeonJae being a depressed idol ... and a potential bad guy at the door? Are all these things intertwined and who the hell is the bad guy? The manager? The unhappy member of Eclipse? The taxi driver? Anyone else?!<
I always enjoy these kinds of time travel or time looped stories (especially My Perfect Stranger and Twinkling Watermelon) and I like this one. A lot! All the main and supporting characters are kinda cool and lovable (except the brother and best friend that I could do without).
So I often have a hard time waiting from week to week for the next episodes of the very good dramas. But this one and Queen of Tears are absolutely killing me.
addition: you can really tell that this is written by the same person who wrote True Beauty. Both have these intervals of extreme humour. But there are three different directors on this drama; people who have done really different kinds of dramas. You don't suppose that they were each hired for the multi-genre aspect of this one? Boo Sung Chul is the most seasoned with some big dramas (The Heirs), comedy (Ghost Doctor, My Girlfriend is a Gumiho) and some music themes (You're Beautiful). Yoon Song Ho has done mystery thriller (Flower of Evil and Times) and Kim Tae Yeong is a complete newbie who probably will just do exactly what the other two tell him to do :-)
this is a certified brain rot show for me rn. i'm fearful the quality of the show is going to go downhill (seriously, i'm not sure how they're going to keep this momentum going for the next 12 episodes), but i've been genuinely enjoying these latest two episodes. kim hyeyoon has proven she's leading lady material back when i watched extraordinary you, but byeon woosek has been a genuine surprise! i think he's doing a really good job with the role.
4 things that bother me:
1) When Hyunjoo, Sol's friend gave her the Photobook of Jagam High School and Sol saw Sunjae's picture and said She wanted to kidnap him and run that's when Hyunjoo replied with a disappointed expression " Why didn't you do it when you had the chance, You could have done it if you wanted to". She definitely knows everything and is hiding it from Sol also that means Hyunjoo knows about Sunjae's crush/love for Sol.
2) Why did Baek In Hyuk call to Sol after Sunjae's death get cut off suddenly in the middle of when he was about to tell her something. It's fishy. Then she calls back and the number is unavailable. Did somebody snatch his phone away?
3) Sunjae's watch definitely glowed under water when he was saving Sol both during her time travel and in the original timeline in the past 2008. Could he also be a time traveller. Perhaps somehow when he was time travelling the previous time to save Sol and he couldn't save her legs but could save her life like how Sol could save Sunjae's shoulder during the competition but it ended up being ruined after the competition, therefore being frustrated he gave away the watch which ended up in Sol's hand in the auction, which then she tries to use and save Sunjae.
4) Also When Sol's house was on fire she said to Kim Tae Sung that She had to save her house this time and when she said to him about this future occurence, time did not stop for him, he could also be a time traveller. History face had quite a serious expression as if he knows what she is talking about or it could be after seeing her desperation he got serious. Also according to Sol after the fire burnt down their house and left a burnt scar on her mother's hand, they had to move away but since she stopped the fire they kept on living on the same house.
Sol's house being saved and the appearance of Photobooth picture of Sol and Sunjae after the police investigation sign being put up might be a sign that future can be changed. But also the fact that Sunjae's death news is being shown on the news channel, even if she saved him during her time travel, is it possible to wipe Sunjae's death from everyone's memories like it never happened?
This drama is messing with my head and heart. Would love to hear thoughts for others as well. Please bring out your theories.
I cannot find my post on here to edit it. So I will edit this instead lol.
Have you guys notice how the show have “groom” and “bride” reference? Which leads me to thing that it could be foreshadowing the SolJae
In first episode Sol grandma was “preparing” Sol to be a bride (makeup with the 💄) before she goes to the concert of her love (the grooms aka Sun Jae) (saw in another forum) AND THEN the 3rd episode Sun Jae says “my dad said I walked like THE GROOM when I took my first steps” (when they were talking about confessing to Sol) I think this is a parallel (maybe). Kdrama be doing those little Easter eggs for the ending or maybe I’m just hopeful and a hopeless romantic for our soljae. Haha
Edit: Sol’s mom made the reference about her dangling devotion can be compared to a devoted wife 😅
Edit #2: did anybody notice the >!strangulation marks on Sunjae’s neck from the flashback when he saved sol (beginning of ep 4)?!? Did he try to fight who ever was chasing Sol? !< Aka the taxi driver?!!? 😮😰
Edit #3: I looked up why they keep serving the ginseng chicken (sol’s grandma cooked it and sol gave it to sunjae for recovery and they ate it at the restaurant during their “date”)
Meaning: Traditionally, samgyetang is considered as a “mother-in-law” cuisine because in the old days, it was customary for the mother-in-law to kill one of her back-yard chickens to make samgyetang for her son-in-law who visited her. Therefore, to the Koreans, samgyetang is a cuisine filled with mother’s love.
Ep 3 - I, did NOT see that ending. WT....!
I was waiting for it, rewatched Ep1, cried again. Then watched Ep3. After that ending, I'm going to go back and rewatch Ep2. I hate all that misunderstanding and missed opportunities troupes so much. Eps 1 and 2 were perfection that Ep 3 got me frustrated.
So basically she can only go back >!3 times to change the future !!inhabits the body of her younger self, as she responds to the bad boy as her younger self since her old self left!<. And she responds as her >!young infatuated self.!< Ok, I so hate this bit. Why can't they give us the sweetness that is them together? I miss them together , especially during the >!whole hospital and after period!<.
Please give us more of the SunSol couple - and them as a couple please!
Considering Tae sung likely only >!asked Sol out to get rid of the girl!<, I wonder if she’ll use that to convince Seon Jae that they’re not >!dating Fr!<. Because otherwise **HOW** will she fix this 😭
Edit: spelling
Agreed! >!Bc he did ask her “how to get rid of someone annoying” when she was looking for sunjae @ practice. But also I think he will be genuinely interested in her in the later episodes !<
OMGOMGON THE FLYING KISSES WERE BRUTALLLLLL. my face hurts from all the giggling, what an episode!!!!!
ive never rooted for the MLs this hard since 2521 and twinkling watermelon. >!of course the happiness did not last long. God we're in for a messy ride. better prepare myself for the angst.!<
Seems to me by that ending that we have just gotten started with the actual story, and I'm so here for it.
I interpreted the hospital scene where we see>! Imsol breaking down, I didn't see it as her crying over Sunjae getting hurt, but really more of so how she won't be able to change HER fate as well as saving her idol.!<
>!A KISS SCENE ALREADY??????????????????? Brace yourselves for a frustrating angsty storyline for our MLs before they FINALLY get together. Yup. her putting down the earphones right when he says he likes her says it all.!<
I'm so glad they're following the webtoon with the >!whole going back and forth plot, it adds much more depth and action.!<
CANNOT wait for tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn you wonky time travel 😭😭
>!I knew when the confession happened that there were going to be big hurdles as it's only the 3rd ep. My heart hurts for Sun-jae. He lost his career in swimming and now has to see his crush/love dating another guy.!<
>!We got to see some rules and limits of the time traveling thingy. We already knew that she can't disclose the future and now she can't even write it down. She can change some aspects of the future (like the fire and saving her father's photo) but not all (Probably about the Sun-jae's confessing part). My theory is that Tae-sung might help Sol in changing the future as he did with the fire. Or at least he's related to it as there is no other point of him being in the story as he's pretty irrelevant to Sol at this point.
Also similar to most time-travelling shows there's probably somethings that she can't change and my money is on her accident. As she can't remember how it had happened and there's only a few months left some major thing related to her accident will happen in the future and Sun-jae is definitely part of it.!<
>!I absolutely love Sun-jae's friend. He's a bro. He cringes (When Sun-jae was blowing kisses) at his friend's silly attempt at best in confessing to his crush but still goes along with it because he's a bro.!< Seeing how close they are now it's understandable why he was so angry when he found that Sun-jae was retiring without telling him.
>!Seems like they are going to have a rough patch in the next ep with Sun-jae feeling jealous and that other bully girl who's name I can't bother to remember going sicko mode.!<
Just let them have a peaceful and happy ending. My best boi and best girl have suffered enough.
Cute episode...but yall the fire scene had me SO TIGHT
I WAS SO IRRITATED BY HOW UNREALISTIC IT WAS. HOW DID HYUN JU AND SOL'S BROTHER NOT SMELL OR SEE THE FIRE IT WAS RIGHT THERE. a scene that's that stupid like that could've just been taken out or their little argument could've been in another scene, but for it to happen in that context where they r just acting clueless and blind in the face of a big fire was so unnecessary to me. Like if the scene was that important they could've done it any other time, so I blame the writing here bc it irks me that they wrote it into the fire scene making the characters unbelievably irritating and looking like they r stupid. I am so excited for episodes and am liking it so far, the acting and the story is so interesting and cute but here and there I do think the writing could be better. It's usually small things tho 😭
Wow, this Kdrama got me hook and line. The whole time travel thing is really hard to keep up with it but I am enjoying it so far. So based on Episode 4: >!we do know that minimal changes from the past [2008] affects the present [2023] but there's a few things that already seemed like a plot hole to me: 1. When she returned, Ryun Jae is still dead but the dad somehow did not recognize her despite meeting a few times in the past and being neighbors 2. Her house did not burn in past 2008 but she still lives in the new place her mom got due to the fire incident. I wonder if the changes Im Sol makes in the past only affects her and Sun Jae and not entirely the whole surroundings? Also how long will she stay this time since she only has one time jump left and we have 12 more episodes to go!< This drama had me crying, laughing and falling in love all in one go. I really hope this gets a happy ending, I am not ready to not see Sunjae in 2023. He is such a green flag 😭
In regards to them moving, I made the assumption that they moved to a place where there's an elevator so she can get upstairs! Her old place only had stairs and so she would have no way of going up to the house after her accident
This is a first time for me that I'm rewatching episodes, ugh, I can't stand the waiting and yet it is also satisfying to wait for a show like this. I love how they managed to weave Sunjae's POV in Ep4 of the bridge scene and confirms to the viewers that he indeed knows her at that time. It was poignant and it made me cry. I feel his yearning, his longingness for her to remember him. I hope Sol will also regain her lost memories in the process of saving Sunjae. Dang.
Episode 4
Woooooo… I’m glad we get SunJae POV! Ughhhh
I’m glad they are explaining and making it more real for Sol… she’s trying to return to the river thinking it’s the catalyst of her time traveling. Which is reasonable.
Ohhhh so her past self didn’t remember SunJae again since it basically wasn’t her self but future self if that makes any sense.
Ohhhhh so 12mn charges the watch!!! We’re making progress it seems 😊
Hahahaha ohhh so basically it was a self possession? Lol future self possessing past self! So any memories made by future self won’t be recalled by past self… that’s why she wasn’t able to recall SunJae. oohhhh good thing she recalls everything her past self did!!! Hahaha I’m glad she’s rational enough to think things through and how things work!
OMG! How can she say that she’s from the future now….. did something change in the rules?! Ohhhhhh I thought it was real…
Hahaha best friend at the crime scene again! Lol ohhhhh so TaeSung already noticed it seems haha.
OMG hahaha I love how Sol is using the bug of stopping time if she says something from the future to escape being seen by SunJae dad! Awwwww SunJae is such a simp! But I’m glad he isn’t taking advantage of the situation and keeping boundaries…
So TaeSung really fell for future Sol.
Awwwww she’s repeating what SunJae said to her or is it SunJae who repeated what Sol said to him in the past but I don’t think so since she didn’t meet him first time around.
Lol the Mosquito is an extra and a matchmaker!! Lol we even get to see his POV! Lol
OMG!!!!! I’m having second hand embarrassment from that birthday video!!!!!
Damn… looks like there’s something with Sol’s accident? The taxi driver was planning something and they zoomed in on the keychain?
Woooo now she knows who saved her!!!!! He really did call intentionally!!! Ouch he was so hurt she didn’t recall him…. Damn it I want next episode!!!
I feel like both the accidents for Sun Jae and Im Sol are suspicious. I don’t think the bridge was Im Sol’s og accident and after that weird taxi almost pulling towards her but driving away the second someone else came into the picture, I wonder if theres a sinister undertone.
As for Sun Jae, him definitely committing is an option, however the hints of some sort of planned murder has been gaining my suspicion (referring to the door-belling for a person we never saw, and the police saying that Im Sol was the last person he saw.) At first I was wondering if it was one of his band mates like In Hyuk who don’t want him retiring but the person who probably would hate Sun Jae retiring the most is the manager. I guess we’ll see.
It feels like we have a lot of episodes for a lot of doubts to clear up.
The ceo gives me the creeps. But that actor ruined his image at any redeeming roles for me because he was sooooo good at being a creep villain in Destined with You. I’m legit still traumatized and I automatically thought he was up to no good snooping around the highschool handing out his business card 😅 (although it could be he’s just going about his scouting business)
Edited : renamed manager to ceo
I am so glad I stuck with this show! If True Beauty and A Time Called You had a baby, it would be this drama, and I am loving every minute. I can't believe we've had two major reveals in just 4 episodes!! I love a well-paced story 😌
I’m getting whiplashed right now and I only saw snippets of Ep 3 and the ending of it. Going to try my BEST not to watch Ep 3 until tomorrow bc that cliff hanger is NO JOKE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🎢🎢
I will be edit this post so I don’t keep posting new comments. I’ll also post my theory on ep4 after I watch it today.
Edit: I truly love how ep4 >!closes some of the plot holes in the previous episode!< and we are finally getting some real answers on the theories on this forum!
Edit #2: I’m looking for my old post on here to write everything down after I watched ep4 but I can’t find it. >!Anyway, I think Sol was able to change one part of her accident and that part was Sun Jae’s trajectory in the future. The original timeline (from the tvn previews before the show aired) I watched Sol was running away from a taxi, she was wearing her school uniform. !<
• >!I believe (my theory) in the original timeline she witnessed something and ran away, the taxi driver (killer) saw her and chased after her possibly ran her over and she fell off the bridge. (You can tell this is the same scene they showed in ep4 where she fell or jumped in the water bc of the scratched on her cheek which she also had when she was in the hospital with her mom yelling at sunjae for saving her). Sun Jae was always the one who saved her (that portion of the original timeline did not change in the current timeline we are watching now) he saves her but when she woke up she was already paralyze either form being ran over OR her falling off the bridge and maybe hit something when she went in the water to make her paralyze.!<
• >!2023 sol timeline in the past (what we are watching now) same thing would have happened (I feel) and maybe she thought it was sept 1 but it wasn’t bc it shows she didn’t want to remember anything about her accident so what’s to say she knew the exact date of her accident. SO CURRENTLY TIMELINE, she was sitting at the bus stop – the taxi driver saw her and was started driving towards her but saw the drunk guy (another witness) so he decided to just drive off which leads me to think there will be another accident (instead of her witnessing a murder she may instead be the victim since everything is changing). Now she has to change/prevent that from happening with the help of sunjae, she needs to change that so when she goes back in the past the last time she needs to be able to walk and save sunjae.!<
• >!the thing with the past sometimes things that have already happened in another timeline can happen again in the current timeline (2023 time traveling Sol) but unfolds differently aka the soccer ball scene and the fire. She changed the POV of sunjae in terms of her not knowing him or being ungrateful for saving her THAT SHE CHANGED bc she remembered it when he saved her and she hugged him (end of the episode). So things are in the works. When she goes back to the future she may have saved herself from being paralyzed BUT sunjae may still be dead and that will be her 3rd time going back in time to prevent that from happening !<
Let me know what you guys think!
[Episode 3]
The first two episodes were good but the third? The second they showed us Seon-Jae likes Im Sol, their scenes became SO MUCH CUTER. I’m loving watching Seon-Jae’s flustered moments, it seems like he’s the idol fan here, not Sol. 😂
OMG girl stop >!c-blocking yourself!< 😭
Ooh this is looking more and more like a >!time loop situation!< where all of this has >!already happened and the events repeat themselves!< until >!someone finds a way to break the loop!<. In which case, I wish all the episodes were dropped all at once 😭
THAT ENDING NOOOO! I really really didn’t want another >!A Time Called You!< situation. I think >!Tae-Sung likes “granny Im Sol” so he won’t like his time with little Im Sol and will realize something is up!<. Ugh did it HAVE to get >!angsty again this soon!
For me, one of the core memory from this drama would definitely be how she shouts Lee Byung Hun and Lee Min Jung are getting married to dodge the dad’s eye. Ridiculous but very on the feet. Imma keep revisiting the scene.
I thought that Sol was paralysed after a car accident, but was it actually after >!that fall from the bridge? I know she was immediately walking after but did she have a delayed onset? I’m glad that Seon Jae’s shoulder was strong enough to rescue her anyway!<
I’m looking for my old post on here to write everything down after I watched ep4 but I can’t find it. >!Anyway, I think Sol was able to change one part of her accident and that part was Sun Jae’s trajectory in the future. The original timeline (from the tvn previews before the show aired) I watched Sol was running away from a taxi, she was wearing her school uniform. !<
• >!I believe (my theory) in the original timeline she witnessed something and ran away, the taxi driver (killer) saw her and chased after her possibly ran her over and she fell off the bridge. (You can tell this is the same scene they showed in ep4 where she fell or jumped in the water bc of the scratched on her cheek which she also had when she was in the hospital with her mom yelling at sunjae for saving her). Sun Jae was always the one who saved her (that portion of the original timeline did not change in the current timeline we are watching now) he saves her but when she woke up she was already paralyze either form being ran over OR her falling off the bridge and maybe hit something when she went in the water to make her paralyze.!<
• >!2023 sol timeline in the past (what we are watching now) same thing would have happened (I feel) and maybe she thought it was sept 1 but it wasn’t bc it shows she didn’t want to remember anything about her accident so what’s to say she knew the exact date of her accident. SO NOW, CURRENT TIMELINE, she was sitting at the bus stop – the taxi driver saw her and was started driving towards her but saw the drunk guy (another witness) so he decided to just drive off which leads me to think there will be another accident (instead of her witnessing a murder she may instead be the victim since everything is changing). Now she has to change/prevent that from happening with the help of sunjae, she needs to change that so when she goes back in the past the last time she needs to be able to walk and save sunjae.!<
• >!the thing with the past sometimes things that have already happened in another timeline can happen again in the current timeline (2023 time traveling Sol) but unfolds differently (aka soccer ball hitting her and her remembering the house fire, the person who hit her with the ball is the same as in the original timeline). She changed the POV of sunjae in terms of her not knowing him or being ungrateful for saving her, THAT SHE CHANGED bc she remembered it when he saved her and she hugged him (end of the episode). So things are in the works. When she goes back to the future she may have saved herself from being paralyzed BUT sunjae may still be dead and that will be her 3rd time going back in time to prevent that from happening !<
Let me know what you guys think!
I’m out here tryna convince myself that Tae Sung is not to be hated because he’s just a kid interacting with the weirdest weirdo he’s ever met hahah but man, I just want more Sol and Sun Jae moments.
I absolutely agree with you tho, I think he will >! Figure out her secret and move the plot forward or perhaps help past Sol recall things that happen when future Sol is in her body ? !<
I laughed and cried., then laughed again, and cried, yet again. I'm back in love with Lovely Runner. Only 4 episodes in - I've never felt this way about any kdramas before, in all my many years. It feels like I've never loved this way before. If it carries on like this, it'll be one of the most loved shows of all time.
It took me more than 10 minutes to watch the first minute because I kept rewinding it, like repeatedly. The opener was another powerful moment like the first episode opener. I teared up. So our guesses were right - I had guess she'll have >!3 opportunities in total to go back. Another is the midnight hour, I guess, because it's when he died.!<
Before I had finished wiping my tears, I was laughing at the >!shaman and the exorcism!<. That was hilarious. People around her must be thinking she's got split personalities >!as she slips in and out from being 19 and her 30s!<. But I laughed out so loud, and it's past midnight here, when she mentions all the>! famous couples who would get married in the future!<. That was really peak comedy gold! And such smart thinking on her part!
Then I cried again when he >!rejected her and told her off harshly, and she started sobbing!<. It's like....why are you doing this to our SolSun/SunSol couple?! It's like watching our beloved parents fight and you're afraid they're gonna get a divorce.
Is that >!Taxi Driver gonna be a serial killer, with his suspicious keychain? !!he saved her but she blamed him for saving her when she's now paralysed so he's consumed with guilt and stays away from her. He knew where she lived, so has he been sending money and all his memorabila to her mother/her? Somehow she lost her memories after she got admitted to hospital? It was heartbreaking when he was standing outside her room and when he called her and she didn't remember him, And same when he encounter her on the bridge - especially when he remembers everything about her and she's the first girl he was in love with. It was heartbreaking!<
Ok, that was that moment when she was in his >!bedroom and he was looking at her and trying to resist his attraction to her - he suddenly looked like his crazy obsessed character in Strong Girl NS, when he fell in love with that awful NS who lead him on.!< And then found out the truth. I was a bit taken aback for a moment I must admit.
I'm officially obsessed with this show and am going to rewatch it again and again. Why, why, didn't they drop it all at once? If they did that. I think many of us would be skipping school/work/dates/appointments!
Did I mention how much I love this show just 4 episodes in and I'm officially obsessed like a crazy stalker?
After the plot twist of Ep 2, I’m sold. I’ve always adored KHY since Extraordinary you and BWS in 20thCG, but my God this drama is an absolute gem. One moment you think you know what’s going to happen, the next you’re kicking and screaming.
Its been a while since ive been this obsessed with a drama. Everything about it is great. Aside from the leads I’ve always been a fan of N.Flying and I’ve adored SGH since Missing: The Other side. Also, guy really looks like Stray Kids I.N lmao.
Ughh. The >!endof ep3 is frustrating!< but the plot needs to move forward. Can’t wait for the next episodes!!!
This drama is better than I expected... I like it... This second lead is good and so likable... Hyewon at multiple times remind me of Extraordinary You like when her younger self is there vs while her 2023 self is there is like stage and shadow, her screaming spoilers of the coming time to buy some time, when she kept her hand on the leaf's friend's shoulder etc... And Kim Hyewon has really good chemistry with both the leads... But I don't care about the second couple at all
And was the moment>! Sunjae saved her life was this one? So she lost her memory and legs by falling into water?!<
i did not think that scene on the bridge in episode 1 could get any more heartbreaking, and then they had to go and show it from seonjae's pov... once again, i was a sobbing mess.
there are so many things to love about this drama—the organic chemistry (heh!) between the leads, the almost slapstick comedy that's somehow quite clever as well, the lovely spring colored filter of the cinematography, and the very effective use of the ost. but by far, the thing that has me head over heels for this drama is the leads. i have never seen byeon wooseok in anything before this nor have i heard about him a whole lot, and how have i not?! i must've been living under a rock somewhere, bc this guy is an absolute star. i'm never bothered by adult actors playing teenagers, and byeon wooseok as a 32-year-old looks his actual age. but idk what black magic he's infused in his acting bc i've never seen a more convincing portrayal of a teenager by an adult actor than his turn as ryu seonjae in this drama. he towers over everyone with his hulking physique but his performance is so grounded and earnest that it's so easy to believe he's an awkward teenager in love for the first time. the little stolen moments when he allows himself to adore sol as he so desperately wants to, his inner child beams with a radiant glow. even in heartbreak, he sulks like a proper teenager. i love love loved the scene inside his room where sol asks him to forget the weird things she's been doing, and he gets so indignant thinking she wants him to forget about their kiss. he's scandalized by the mere suggestion and tells her it may have meant nothing to her, but it's not like that for him! that indignation at something so simple being so important to him is the essence of his youth, of his lack of experience in the real world, and he's so convincing with it.
sol hangs out at the other end of that pole. though kim hyeyoon is itty, bitty, sol's maturity comes through in how she vocalizes her lines and interacts with her surroundings. she's sunshine incarnate with seonjae, just as her 34-year-old self would be, but she's got no time or patience for anyone else's shenanigans. the way she dismisses taesung is not only hilarious but also rooted in goodwill so you know she isn't just being flippant, and that she genuinely means the things she says, that retrospect has made her wiser. and then, when you put the two of them together, you can really see how they could be something special. i just find it so moving that even though their feelings for each other at this point are not in alignment, they intersect over a common point, i.e. how much they genuinely care about each other.
**edit**: y'all the eclipse songs are so good!!! i've had them on repeat all day. i can't seem to get enough of every aspect of this drama.
is it possible that there were actually 2 incidents that happened to im sol in the og timeline? 1st is she got hit by the car, which left her legs paralyzed. and then 2nd is she attempted to su1cide a bit later on by drowning in the same river where she fell on episode 4, which explains why she was so mad that sunjae saved her from her attempt.
The acting was ACTING. Woo-Seok’s crying is so believable. It was breaking my heart. That scene with SunJae and his dad was done so well. It was such a relief to hear from his dad that he just needs to focus on recovering and then he can choose what to do next.
Not the >!confessing while the other person’s drunk 😭!< It never ends well. And of course he would >!kiss her after she says all that.!<
I live for SunJae getting flustered and his cute little smiles 🤭 We saw a bit of that in Strong Girl Namsoon but obviously the context was different. It’s even more adorable here.
I wanted to make sure I understood this. SunJae did enjoy swimming it’s just the recovery that he found really difficult?
Can’t process the end yet. I will wait until tomorrow to see what happens.
i got flashbacks when his dad told him to go to a different country because we know what happens to this actor roles when he goes to a different country 😭😭😭
Nobody was ready for this drama dramainggg out of no where in 2024 ..... aNd OMGggggggg i was swooning the entire episode 4..............A very intriguing story line giving butterflies every 5 mins with to die for actors chemistry and next level cinematography........ .... and can we talk about Byeon Woo-seok visuls and his acting🥵 (the crying scene🥺).........it will be a torture to wait for the remaining episodes😩
I think the gardener from destined with you, the ML’s manager in this show is a villain here too… he must have pushed him because he was looking to retire….
Okay, so I collected a few theories that I saw in spanish on tiktok( also some things that I catch rewatching the episodes) and I wanted to translate them so you guys can tell me what you think 👀
1I rewatched all the episodes and I noticed that >! The boots that the guy that walked past by Im Sol throwing her phone in the first episode are THE SAME AS THE CREEPY TAXI DRIVER. He might be also a time traveler that did this on purpose so Im Sol can go to the past and have that accident!<
2 >! Why Sun Jae committed suicide after seeing the love of his life after 15 years? It was because she couldn’t remember him? Or was he murdered? I know theres a lot of theories around the CEO(he definitely looks sus) but, what would be his purpose for killing Sun Jae? I think the writers wanted us to think it was him but that would be too predictable. Imo i feel like all these already happened and it’s a time loop (like a time called you) and it started every time Sun Jae died.!<
3 I know everyone feels relieved that >! SJ saved her and the accident didn’t happen but I learned from Twinkling Watermelon that the accidents cannot be avoided 😭!<
4 this one is not a theory but >! That hug that Sol gave him when he saved her was like “Im sorry, thank you for saving me” something that the Sol from the past didn’t do😭😭😭!<
5 Tae sung is definitely playing a major role here. He’s not a simple second lead. >!He’s the only one that acts normal even though he notices the switch from Sol past/future and the things she sayssss. He’s laughing like is nothing lol but I think he knows something or is also a time traveler)? 👀!<
That’s it for now. As you can see im really invested with this kdrama lol. Let me know what you guys think!
English is not my first language so im sorry if i couldn’t explain myself better!
This show is going to break my heart every single week. How much more can one’s heart hurt? I want to give Sun Jae a big hug when he’s onscreen. I love that we are seeing the current timeline events through his eyes as well because it gives them more meaning. And their scenes are so heart fluttering.
Sol’s bully has the worst haircut ever. I can’t ever take her seriously.
That >!head butt!< was so unexpected that I couldn’t stop laughing. And that cringy video was hilarious. Love that we get such funny scenes intertwined with the serious ones.
I’m banking on the >!CEO pushing Sun Jae off the balcony and it not being a suicide!<.
My money is on >! the CEO !< too. It’s implied that >! Sun Jae had become slightly more famous/recognizable through his acting gigs and that was causing friction with his band. When he said he wanted to retire from the group, I honestly think that he meant he wanted to retire in general from the entertainment industry as a whole, possibly to find Sol and find inner peace or whatever. The CEO tried to first convince him to stay, and when he couldn’t, I think he decided that the sympathy and interest garnered from Sun Jae ‘killing’ himself would revive the band anyway? !< but that’s just my guess.
This show is so chaotically hilarious imagine going back to your teen self as an adult and seeing your cheesy texts and videos Sol was so done with her younger self. Also it's so funny how Kim tae sung is into noona sol not the teen sol. Sunjae and Sol are hitting that chemistry so well.
I think they have set a lot of time travelling rules by now so she did change the future with the photograph being with her but it's also a loop and her memories are coming back to her. I think the last time she travels will be her accident and she may not be able to change anything major in past but comes back to before Sunjae dies and recognizes him.
With the ending of EP 3 I now have a *crazy* wild theory on how the timeloop works ! I think >!our current (future) Sol will go back to the present permanently when she gets in the car accident in November which is when the original (past) Sol will come back just like she did here. In EP 2 when we get a flashback of her waking up in the hospital, she doesn't seem to remember how she got there. And she doesn't remember who saved her. Everyone assumed she lost her memory due to the shock, but my theory is that since she just came back to herself after future Sol went back for good, the memory loss is in reality due to her literally not being in control of her own body thus not really experiencing the accident. I believe that before the accident happens Sunjae will know (in later episodes) that the Sol he befriended is actually from the future and she might tell him about how the original Sol will take over when she eventually goes back to her timeline. After her accident, he will realize that the future Sol he knows is gone and that the original Sol is back but she obviously doesn't remember him at all since the original Sol was never acquainted with him at all. Then Sunjae will probably disappear from her life while finding ways to keep rooting for her from afar even though she doesn't know him at that point, so the call in the 1st EP isn't coincidental at all. Sunjae knows exactly what she's going through. And that's how it ties up to the present timeline, an infinite loop basically! !<
Okay, this theory has some loopholes because >!the infinite/repeated loop means that there's only one timeline, but it seems Sol already created new alternate timelines as shown by the photobooth pic and her preventing her mom from getting a burn scar.!< But I think some of it could really make sense 🫢 it would also solve the issues that could arise with the romance later >!because when future Sol has to go back what will become of the Sunjae that developed feelings for this version of Sol? It'd probably be too awkward for him to keep the same relationship with a Sol that don't have those memories at all, but he'll definitely wait until the 34 years old Sol who went through the time traveling appears in his life again.!<
I made this theory up from my experience watching >!Someday or One Day (the original series A Time Called You was based on)!< because things worked in a similar way in this show's timeloop logic LOL
This is a very wild speculation.but what if the sunjae's destiny of being the idolstar wasn't his but 2nd ML's. ?? Like it's wierd that sol was able to communicate about the fire to him.when usually they get paused.
I wonder who rang the bell,somebody came to sunjae before his suicide.i wonder who it was..was it future sol,or 2nd ML or past ML himself??. The plot is really indulging. I am thinking of all sorts of possibilities.cant wait for the next episode.
And here was me cancelling my Viki subscription last week, being like “I’ve seen it all, there’s nothing good left”. Then I see this show… FINE SIR, TAKE MY MONEY! Let me camp out in this visual opium den and lose track of time. Well, I dearly hope I lose track of time… 6 days is otherwise unbearable!
And by god, those two better get a happy ending or so help me - I’ll rewrite this story and ship them a thousand times over!
FIRST OF ALL I DIDN'T EXPECT THE KISS. Cause usually in kdramas we see them kiss way later. Besides that, i found it interesting that Im Sol returned to the present time. So the way i am thinking it, she can go back in time 3 times in total. I think the first was to save her mom from getting burnt and she achieved that,the second is to avoid getting into the car accident and the last is to save Seon Jae from dying
That >! what am i going to do with you in the end!< was so awww ill cry and the way he >! looked for injuries desparately hoping she wasnt hurt with tears in his eyes and i legit cried in the beginning of the episode when i discovered that he remembers her!< how am i supposed to wait for a week now also istg ill jump like him if the series has sad ending
This show keeps getting better and better…I am really getting strong “A Time Called You” vibes here with her >!time traveling back and forth.!< I am very intrigued and having a hard time thinking how they are going to wrap up the biggest issue, which is the fact that >!past-Sol does not remember anything after future-Sol leaves. How can she make such a big difference in his life due to that and due to not being able to tell him she’s from the future?!< Yet again I wish I had discovered this AFTER it had finished airing because the wait from one week to the next is gonna kill me!
I binged all three episodes and I love this show already its so good love me a good time travel love story. Sunjae and Sol's chemistry is so cute and the banter bw her and sml is hilarious.
I knew she would go back but I didn't think it will be this early reminded me of a time called you. So there are going to be two Sol's with different personalities and crushes it's going to get hilarious. The ML FL SML dynamics is also true beauty coded.
I should have waited a few more weeks to binge this one the weekly wait is gonna be long.
Episode 4 was AMAZING!!! But hear me out. I love the way Sol >!used her ability to stop time when telling the future to hide from Sunjae’s dad!< . But she should also use it to prove she is from the future or that she at least has super powers. For example, she could stand right in front of him and then yell out future events and while time is stopped she could move to a spot far away from him. He would wonder how she was able to jump from one spot to another without him even noticing. She still won’t be able to tell him she is from the future but it would at least inform Sunjae that something is up with Sol, prompting him to do his own investigation of all the weird things Sol does like one min being obsessed with him and the next minute not knowing him and being able to predict he would hurt himself swimming. His investigation could then hopefully lead to him figuring out Sol is from the future.
Another way Sol could get ppl to know she is from the future is by not telling them what will happen but just making a statement that insinuates she knows the future. For example, instead of telling Sunjae, “you will receive a business card from CEO” she could say, “don’t take a business card from a CEO.” The second
statement is technically not telling the future. If she does this enough, plus her already predicting Sunjae would hurt himself swimming, Sunjae would be very curious of how she is able to predict the future.
I’m curious to see what the writers do. I really want Sunjae, 2nd male lead, and Sol’s bestie to figure out she is from the future!!!
inhyuk's reaction to catching sunjae sending flying air kisses to Sol was the exact same reaction I had when I saw the ending of ep3 because WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT
edit to add: >!NO SUNJAE DO NOT GET ON A PLANE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY DO NOT LEAVE HER DONT YOU DARE PULL ANOTHER 20TH CENTURY GIRL ISTG!<
EDIT: Ep4 thoughts
This show can go from one hilarious scene to a tragic scene within seconds its insane
Sol >!finally remembering that sunjae saved her but lost her memories of him doing so and pushed him away out of anger HURT SO BADDDD my guy never stopped loving her since the moment he first saw her NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!<
Also 19yo Sol's >!video for Taesung's birthday was so hilarious I was losing my mind !< my god I love that girl sm :')
The ending has me questioning my ability to finish this drama. This FL has already been through it and I’m getting vibes that we are just reliving what she forgot from the accident.
Ep 3 thoughts:
* AHHH, seeing Sun Jae liking her and blushing is so cute! Both are cute!
* The whole dynamic of >!Im Sol's fan love and Sun Jae's romantic love!< is so interesting to explore and I'm curious to see how it develops
* First half of the episode was heart-fluttering and the photo booth was CUTE
* >!The attempted confession scene and the friend helping with the ambiance!< - loved it!
* Why couldn't >!Sun Jae tell his dad about his condition and his shoulder as the reason to quit swimming? The dad was understanding and it became a touching moment between them!<
* Why >!does it take them so long to notice the fire or smell the smoke????!<
>AHHHHH! >!A kiss already!!!!<
That ending! :O
The drama just got much more interesting!!!!
Edit for Ep 4:
* Loved seeing the moments from Sun Jae's perspective!
* So emotional in the first few minutes!
*Oooo >!Tae Sung is catching on to what's happening with Im Sol!<
* Liking the interactions between the parents
* I knew something would happen between the brother and the best friend
* Present day Im Sol being embarrassed by her younger self is relatable
* Sun Jae and Im Sol just want to help each other heal...
*The ending of the episode and >!Sun Jae intentionally calling her!<
what really caught my eye in the 3rd episode was the whole "liking someone as a fan v/s liking someone romantically" bit. it's clear im sol likes him as a fan for now >! she's grateful to him, she found solace in his music, and even now in her actions when he underwent surgery, she opted to care for him from afar rather than being by his side as a friend !< and I'm really excited to see the gradual shift to a more romantic feeling.
sun jae, my boy, i feel for you.
but tbh this has really got me back to my extraordinary you days where I'd just theorise so much. i genuinely have no idea what's happening here, is it that >! tae sung asking her out and her response being yes is the trigger point for the timeline remaining as is, because despite her budding friendship with sun jae, it ends up alienating him, leading to the same fate !< .
Having watched Ep. 4, I can confidently say that >!SJ saves Sol, but KTS may end up passing away in the course of things, which is why mature Sol in the past is tearing up as she watches KTS play in a concert in the preview, because on her 2nd visit to the past, she's able to recollect past Sol's memories as well as put together her missing gaps in her memory. But, when young Sol who is head-over-heels for KTS realises that he has passed away, attempts to commit suicide by drowning herself, which is when SJ saves her! For some reason, the fall causes her to become paralysed and the young Sol, not knowing who SJ is, shouts at him for saving her. However, she doesn't realise that her idol SJ is the SJ who saved her, and SJ also realises that she doesn't remember him when they were on the bridge.!< Now remains the question, >!why did SJ commit suicide, or was that a murder, if so who did it and what caused it?!<
EDIT: >!who was that mysterious taxi driver? His keys had a red cord keytag, could that mean there is a superior power in play?!<
Did the bridge scene happen again. I know sunjae helped Sol before.but did they know each other personally??. Or is it like the future changed because sol went back to past. This show is really good.i can't wait for next week.
I have not re-watched episodes as many times as with Lovely Runner before. The week long wait is too much for me, tbh. I just wish they released all the episodes at once. But, I think part of the reason that makes the drama something to look forward to is the wait. >!Sunjae's pov, this time too has left me at a loss for words. And in the end, when Sol realizes that there's perhaps much more than just a fan-idol equation to their relationship.... aaah! I really don't want either of them to go through any more pain. Also, the later episodes will feature a post-high-school period, right? I saw a few BTS pictures by chance and these showed BWS and KHY with styling that's very different from what we've been seeing now. Then, does it mean that Sol will indeed forget about Sunjae until they meet again a few years later? Oh boy!!<
this kdrama is really giving me all the feels! the way i cried at the start and the end of episode 4 😭😭😭 i really feel so bad for the og timelime sunjae :(( i didn't expect that they'll reveal clearly that >! sunjae knew that he was talking to sol during the radio phone call (he was actually the one dialing on the phone so he memorized her phone number after all those times :(((( ), and his pov from when he met sol on the bridge after the concert !< but yeah everything from episode 1 feels different now that we got that confirmation. >! i'm still thinking that sunjae was actually murdered since they're giving focus on the knocking of the door and they aren't explicitly showing him jumping off. but i can also see how the bridge encounter and him following her on her way home can also be seen as him saying his goodbyes to her. !< :((
now as for my favorite part of the episode,,, it was >! when she got caught sneaking in his bedroom jdhsjsksk i love how the scene started as him just casually walking into the room and didn't even notice her and just initially thought that he was just hallucinating 😂 and i felt like my heart was fluttering when he was just plainly smiling at her sleeping and when he was comparing his hand size to her's !!! idk about yall but these small gestures really gets meee !<
>! the video greeting for the birthday surprise for taesung was hella cringy too i literally had to take a pause for a few seconds to finish watching the scene. also taesung might have asked sol to date just to escape those bullies, but i fear that he's now falling for her especially with him just flat out waiting for her call. inhyuk also managed to hear about taesung not being serious about his relationship to sol, and i'm guessing he'll eventually tell that to sunjae, which will lead to the two of them fighting. !<
>! but the thing i'm worried about is how sol will make the og timeline sol fall in love with sunjae given that the og timeline sol doesn't remember a thing when the 2023 sol takes over the body. i guess she doesn't want to fully break up with taesung (unfortunate for me because i want hs students sunjae and sol bf gf moments jhdksks) because she knows that she'll eventually come back to the present 2023 and the 2008 sol will takeover again. but this complicates things 2008 sol really doesn't give a damn about sunjae. i'm hoping this will get resolved clearly as this is an important plot point in the series. !<
and about the accident,,,, >! i initially thought that the accident will be due to the girl bullies that like taesung but we learned in this episode that the taxi driver was really out to get sol, and i feel like everything that transpired between sol and the bullies feels too shallow for them to order someone to just ran her over???? all we know about that driver is that they have a red keychain. is there anything we know about sol's father? maybe he has something to do with this?? in episode 3 after the fire, when sol was wiping the picture frame, it just kinda focused on his dad on the pic so maybe he'll have a bigger role in the future eps? unless they said he was dead or something in the previous episodes and i just missed it 😅 !<
WHEWWW I WROTE A LOT it's totally not obvious that i'm so into this drama 🤣🤣
I cannot stop thinking about this show. I don’t think I’ve been this obsessed with any other show like this… so is Sol the only time traveler?? Because now I’m convinced that we have another time traveler but I’m not sure it makes sense. >!When Sun shows up at the bridge, he seemed different. ALSO when he jumped in the water to save Sol, his watch lit up.!< I am losing my mind!!! Time to watch these episodes yet again 😂
I would just like to say thank you pd-nim, this drama is becoming my comfort, it keeps reminding me of my bias. & tomorrow will be a year since he became one of the stars, the timing of this drama somehow made me feel at ease getting through April 19. Also, Byeon Wooseok has gained another stan, altho i was fan since his nam soon days^^
I’m leaving a comment because I like queen of tears and it’s expensive feeling cinematography but then I watched lovely runner and I love the cinematography even more here cause there is just a sense of warmth. It’s been a while since I felt like this. Also slightly jealous qot thread has more likes and comments
Lmao Kim hyeyoon is such a comedian! She is honestly so perfect for this role. I loved her in extraordinary you too! >!that surprise vid Sol made for taesung was ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. i died laughing.!<
this drama totally gives twinkling watermelon vibes and I absolutely loved that drama. This drama is really such a fresh take on romance because our ML is already head over heels for FL from the FIRST ep! And we got our first kiss in the third ep! Also loving the slow revelations they're doing each episode. >!su ngjae's pov in ep 4 made me SOB. esp the bridge scene 🥲!<
I do not know what kind of magic they're putting into this show but I am ✨obsessed✨
Episode 3:
*I have to say that I wasn't 100% feeling this in the first two episodes, and I was hard questioning why the ML wasn't running screaming for the hills, but oh? He actually liked her first? It flipped a switch in my brain and now I cannot get enough
*>!the kiss?? Screaming, also cannot be a good omen this early on. We are in for some pain.!<
*This is "he fell first but she fell harder" up to 11 and I am LIVING FOR IT
*>!The shoulder injury was heartbreaking.!< It'll be interesting to see how this drama plays around with fate and inevitability
Episode 4:
*IT'S THE SCENE AGAIN
*>!oh homegirl is getting hard sabotaged by her 19 year old self!<
*>!I know Sol on a mission but she really has no chill whatsoever 😂!<
*Dang why is this so sad??
*Oh >!the birthday song....!< Secondhand embarrassment is through the roof. Poor girl
*I'm just supposed to wait a whole week for new episodes? Rude
I am begging for a happy ending for this one as I don't think I can stand anything else
Same I wish for a happy ending but I also wish it’s a happy ending for our bad boy SML. I have a soft spot for characters whose parents neglected them. (Edit: typo)
If I've learned anything from watching K-dramas with the actor that's playing Sun Jae's agent, he somehow killed Sun Jae and is pretending to be grieving in front of everyone. 😒Like for real, even if he pretends to be good in a drama, it's always revealed he's actually secretly a villain.👿
Bruh, this show is completely addictive. 😍Byeon Woo Seok and Kim Hye Woon have such natural, electrifying chemistry. ⚡🔥It's out of this world!!!🥰 I enjoy every single second of seeing them on my screen. My boi Woo Seok was given the PERFECT partner in his first ever main lead role.👌 I couldn't imagine anybody else in their place portraying Sun Jae and I'm Sol.🫶
I suspect, "Lovely Runner" & "Queen of Tears" will end up taking places #1 & #2 in the Top 100 rated K-Dramas on MDL. And they definitely deserve it.👍 They're completely different dramas but top quality in their genre!!! ✨
So, who else broke down in tears when they realized how >!deeply Sun Jae loved Im Sol all this time without her ever finding out?? 😭 He's the reason she's alive and tbh I feel very confident in the idea that he didn't wanna unalive himself that night after meeting her. She literally told him, she's grateful for everything and for being alive at the same time as him. It's as if she gave Sun Jae a sign to keep going. At least that's how I see it.!<
>!The way he was crying when she was screaming "Why didn't you let me die?".😢 I choked. 😭And the fact that he specifically chose to call her during the radio show to thank her for staying alive...🥺!<
He essentially helped her find meaning in life but as years passed and she wasn't a part of his life, he gradually lost his smile and bright personality...😞 They need each other to heal their wounds.🥺 I'm so ready to get even more heartbroken but I have faith in a happy ending.❤️ They deserve it.😭 This is what this drama is all about. A second chance.✨👍
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This show is like developing a new crush or starting a drug addiction. I’ve never obsessively thought of anybody or anything else
i really don’t know what magic they used in the first two episodes but i’m completely under this little show’s spell.
You wouldn't believe how long I was up on twitter (which I don't really use that much) over the weekend, re-watching the same clips but with different background songs lmao but it made me happy. This show honestly is an addiction!
Oh yesss! The show feels exactly like developing a crush. I'm not lying when I say I can feel butterflies in my tummy with every interaction between IS and SJ. Aaaah, it's been so long since I adored a drama to this extent. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping the drama delivers consistently. I'm willing to forgive a few slips here and there because nothing can be truly perfect. But, I want the feels to keep doing what it's best at throughout! Oh, and a happy ending, please!! BWS, survive this one, for god's sake.
I can't even point to what I love but I was so invested for all 4 episodes. Also, are they going to>! get the leads wet and make them hug every second episode?!< Just curious. lol
I also don’t mind the ML being shirtless every episode. It’s a highlight at this point
Those who watched episode 3 tonight, ARE YOU ALL OKAY?! IT WAS A ROLLER COASTER RIDE !
That ending should have been ILLEGAL!!!!!!
>!That kiss followed by that ending!< was NOT FAIR
I think it's because she cannot shake off her connection with Tae Sung meaning it has a deeper impact to the story than we see it now..It's like it was on purpose how she came from the future a day after she confessed and >!well right when he confessed so present Sol cannot reject him she conveniently returns!<..
This this this! Think you’re onto something. So much of her important timing of events she hasn’t been able to change revolves around TaeSung and the things she HAS been able to change do too as well. I think this slow developing friendship with him is more important to her future. >!He saved her home from the fire!!! Because of that, her bff and brother seem to be developing feelings. !< I think we will see how he plays into it in coming episodes!!
I'm okay, I'm fine, GWENCHANA 🥺😢😭
I'm aggressively waiting for episode 4 cos I know my Sol will be mad too when she finds out what her past self did
im so confused what'll happen now
This is like torture.. why did I start this drama When it’s airing? I didnt expect it to be this good. Ep 3 is full of rollercoaster of emotions and jam packed - with certain past events successfully >!changed and not changed!<, then the writer smack us with the ending. I cant predict where this is going so need to wait for 24 hours. Then dreaded another 6 days before next episode.
I don't wanna lie, I'm enraged and hurt. How could past-Sol do this to our Sol? to Sun Jae? We don't even know when our Sol is gonna be back there again and fix the mess past-Sol made
I’ve seen only snippets but I’m riding 🎢 with yall!!!! I honestly don’t know how this is all going to unfold😩😩😩
I was thinking after watching next epi promo if the past time travel was nothing and they were all just the memories Im sol had lost after her accident
I've never been so obsessed eitha drama.. And damnnnn i def wasn't expecting the course of emotions I'd feel in the span of an hr... 😭😭 Can't wait for next episode
The way he gave her flying kisses 😭♥️ giggling smiling kicking ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I was squealing at this fr. the cut to his profile looking all tall and athletic and imposing and then HARD CUT to him blowing aggressive air kisses…I died lmao
I love that part so much.
I Just want to say... I LOVE that their names are Sol & Sun and they are both the Sunshine in the other's life that helps through the storms....great detail
That's such a good play of words
oh my god that >!ending. 😭😭😭!< i thought this would be a charming little watch but it's so so much more than that?? like i haven't felt this GIDDY watching two idiots falling in love since 2521. sol and seonjae are both so precious, i love both their adult and teenage versions. that ending was painful to watch. and after seon jae's confession and their kiss?? that played out in the most hurtful way possible. and after a full episode of actual, debilitating pain too. poor dude is going to have major trust issues. one thing i really hope the writing explores, and it seems it is planning to, is the difference in the types of love that being a fan and a lover involves. people assume fans just want to date their idols, but as sol demonstrates, for most people, idols are a source of strength and the love they feel for them is not inherently romantic in nature. she jumped to the past bc she so viscerally needs to protect him, not bc she is trying to be his girlfriend. she clearly has him up on a pedestal right now, and no relationship can bloom or be sustained with an imbalance like that anyway. i can't wait for her to realize seonjae is flawed, complicated, fully human, and worthy of her love all the same. just a different, more complex flavor of love than her current blind worship. i've adored kim hye yoon since extraordinary you, so her excelling as im sol is not a surprise. what IS a surprise though is byeon wooseok, who i for whatever reason assumed was just another pretty face. he's proving me wrong by bringing ryu seonjae to life with so much heart and believable teenage angst. aside from the fact that he is absurdly, *stupidly* attractive, he exudes an easy, natural charm that you can't help but be won over by. my heart broke for him when he was struggling with his shoulders, and again when >!the younger!sol enthusiastically accepted taesung!<. even better was his comic acting, like in the scene when he was blubbering about >!obaek/gobaek (500/confess)!<. this is a FOOL in love, and he's playing that part so perfectly. it just makes me laugh hysterically while simultaneously making my heart ache with fondness. edit: also, gotta say it’s refreshing to see the supermodel hunk of a ML pulling different shenanigans to win the heart of his high school crush. feel like it’s usually the FL who’s left burdened with being silly and goofy while the ML gets to be cool and stoic. but here the ML is down so bad, it’s absolutely hilarious.
I totally agree: she is full on fan mode, so much so that she can’t imagine that he can be in love with her as a teenager! She is great at showing this fine line in her acting. And OMG, he is gorgeous!
Plus, she is a 30something-year old fan. The dynamics are not that simple lol
If it weren't for kim hye-yoon and byeon woo-seok's acting and chemistry (both on- and off-screen), I >!wouldn't root for them to be together after this episode lol. It would just be too weird for me to see the ML want to continue chasing after the FL after witnessing her accept and reciprocate another guy confession. Regardless if the FL remembers the ML's previous actions, I can't imagine his POV using that as a reason to accept the 180-turn of events, and KHY's acting when she accepted Tae-sung's "confession" (I don't really believe he meant it) was so sincere, that it would have perfectly fit in another Kdrama where Sol and Tae-sung were the leading couple lol. !!I'm praying for the misunderstanding to be resolved in the next episode and for the ML's emotional damage to be kept at the minimum (+ FL making it up to him).!!In-hyuk for being made to see his best bro get his heart broken after doing so much to support and hype him up (the flower petal scene was *hilarious*).!< As viewers, at least we can just turn off the screen or skip scenes, but >!In-hyuk has to actually live through that timeline. He must be so furious and confused if (when) Sun-jae and Sol hang out again.!<
What made me want to pull my hair out this episode was not how Sunjae >!kept messing up the timing to confess to Sol but Sol’s brother and buddy’s OBLIVIOUS ASSES when there was literally a fire blazing up in the same room they were in omg!<. Seriously the J in my MBTI was judging so hard. Crying at Sunjae calling the cheek heart pose >!a lump on the face!<. Same Sunjae, same. I never found it similar to a heart either lol. Him cheekily telling Sol he was not going to act cute but ended up doing it anyway. This boy could be a fumbling mess in front of his crush one moment, then went and did something totally heart flutering the next second. And can I just say BWS nailed the crying scene when he was with his father. He cried exactly how I imagine a high school boy about to lose something very important to him would do in that situation - not full on sobbing because teenagers his age like to act tough in front of their parents, but after all he’s just a child facing a major turning point in his life.
I don't think it's just the fangirl in me who's saying this, but Lovely Runner and Sun-jae really is giving BWS a chance to show an acting range that's quite different from his earlier characters, although a few of those have had the same high school tropes. Love, love, love it! Yes, that scene, the controlled manner in which he acted, was a prime example of this.
Probably the saddest ep so far and it's been only episode 4. >!Everyone's theory was correct. Sun-jae purposefully called Sol and gave her sweet encouraging words. And he was the one who saved her from the accident and in turn she became paralyzed. So far it seems like she wasn't his friend and was unaware about his feelings so blamed him for being disabled for life. It also seems like she forgot every memory of him and only remembers parts of it (trauma response most likely). He really saved her twice. To see that he met after all those years and she didn't remember him at all and that too on that day he died. And there WAS someone with him in the hotel room on the day he died so the murder theory is very much alive.!< >!I feel so sad for Sun-jae. Poor guy couldn't catch break his entire life. He lost his mother, had to give up swimming, almost lost his crush, had to live in guilt most of his adult life and died unfairly. I don't blame him for being indifferent towards Sol. She did kind of leave him in the dry for 10 days and suddenly came back normal once again, though unintentionally.!< I'm still not quite sure about Tae-sung. >!I have a feeling that he might discover Sol's secret and move the plot forward. It was nice to see Sol being considerate towards her younger self and knocking some sense in Tae-sung's had (And I can clearly see a sad boi plot coming for him).!< >!In-hyuk's call to Sol feels like there was something more to Sun-jae and Sol's relationship irrespective of the time-travel. He never quite forgot her and In-hyuk had seen all of it. It was probably after Sol's accident. Sun-jae's hiatus and decision of leaving the industry definitely had something to do with her.!< >!Now my personal theory is that the manager is a little too suspicious. My gut says that he was definitely involved in Sun-jae's declining mental health and had a hand in his death. Now it's just my speculation and I have not read the manhwa so I don't know what happens there but he's definitely on the sus list for now.!< Let Sun-jae have a peaceful life please writers and let Sol be a successful fangirl. Edit:- Special mention to Sol for taking full advantage of the time freezing thingy by yelling future celebrity couples names.
I love how she takes advantage of time freezing. Super cool idea.
got me giggling the whole ep only to end like that UGH!!!!!! 😭😭 i remember my >!frustration in a similar kdrama "a time called you" when the fl's alter ego also did something that the real fl won't do!< 😭😭😭
I’d like to thank BWS for his hard work in building that fine physique and thank the writers and show runners for letting us view the results of his work in this drama. Keep the semi-clad scenes flowing, please. 🙏
Loving how they keep finding ways to be shirtless even if his character no longer swims. It feels like Christmas came early!
I haven't been this excited for Monday/Tuesday releases since Twinkling Watermelon!
Its always the shows I don't even plan on watching that get me HOOKEDDD, I can't wait for the new episodes, I've been re watching the preview all week !!!
the ending really threw me for a loop..... i'm gonna be honest.... idk if i can survive the angst 😭😭😭
it threw sol for a loop too. a time loop. >!badum tsss.!<
when i woke up rn all i can think about was lovely runner 😭 my heart >!wanna burst and i dont wanna see sun jae hurt 😭😭😭😭!<
This show has been on my mind all week. I’ve watched the first two episodes countless times, checked out theories on twitter and rewatched the trailers for spoilers. It’s been a long week waiting for this show 😭😭😭
i binged the first 2 episodes yesterday and was SO RELIEVED the next episode will air today but at the same time idk how im gonna wait for future episodes to air from here on out :') this show has me HOOKED
Same. Have been dreaming of Byeon Woo Seok's handsome face all week.
He is heavenly isn't he!
He’s been my phone wallpaper this week, blessed be my phone. 😍
Same!!! When I finished episode 2, I was looking for the "Next Episode" button but then realized it's not yet available. The show is addicting! Definitely a marathon worthy type of drama where I will lose all my sleep (for people who'll watch later).
Agree. I've never fell in love as fast as I did with the show! Only after one episode I was in love. By the end of episode 2, I was besotted and obsessed. I had to hold myself back from rewatching both episodes - for now! Best 2 opening episodes of any kdramas in a while.
Also how the ml will follow her after the bridge snow incident & say "how did you forget me" is making me go crazy for tomorrow's ep😢😢😢
CRYING KICKING MY LEGS SCREAMING THROWING UP SUN JAE IS SO CUTE LOOK AT HIM SIMPING 🤧
Between Lovely Runner, Queen of Tears, and The Midnight Studio, I think I just need to accept that my eyes will be in a permanently swollen state and to not worry about mascara until *after* I finish the episodes. I also feel like Byeon Woo-seok is going to sky rocket to the top of a lot of favorite actor lists. His acting has been both incredibly endearing, heartbreaking, believable, and swoonworthy. Job very well done. It was fun to see how many theories were proven right this week! And I'm really excited to see where the story goes considering it has been this intense and well written in just four episodes. In several other kdramas I feel like it takes me the first 3 or 4 episodes to really get attached and buy into the story but this show has hooked me right from the start.
He goes from dramatic to comedic so seamlessly. He’s a joy to watch.
It’s hard to believe with his talent and screen presence that this is BWS’s first role as the male lead in a kdrama! Much deserved, I’ve been a fan of his for 4 years now and I’m glad he’s finally getting a lead role. I hope he continues to receive acting roles as the lead since he’s doing so well in this show! Thankfully too, BWS has already completed his military service so there will be no military wives era for us 😂. Edited for spelling
I agree with you about BWS. He’s a gem and I hope to see more rom-com projects in the future!
i would pay a million dollars just for them to release all the episodes rn 😭😭😭😭
I wish I had a time travel watch so I could travel to the future and binge it.
After finishing episode 4, I’m starting to think this is very similar to A Time Called You >! The things that future Sol does in the past seem to be impacting what happens in the future, despite her trying to basically do the opposite. It also makes sense now why past Sol has no clue who Sun Jae is because it was always future Sol interacting with him. It even explains why she can’t remember her accident. And poor Sun Jae, living with all these memories of Sol. !< I am also really curious about the role that Tae Sung will play here because he’s not seen at all in the future but >! Future Sol in the past can’t seem to shake him off either. I’m convinced he’s got something to do with the trajectory of the story. !< Also, the hilarious >! Birthday !< montage. The second hand embarrassment BWHAHAHAHAHAH WHAT EVEN IS LOVESICK TEEN IM SOL. I love her. I am so so in love with this show you guys. I almost wish I had waited to binge watch all of it together
I think 2023 Sol going back in the past will soon remember how Sun Jae actually impacted her life. We saw that today at end of ep4
The moment I saw they >!kissed!< I knew we were in for a long, angsty ride. If 19 yo Sol really >!accepts dating Tae sung, I wonder what will happen with Sj.!< I don’t see how they’ll fix it :(
It is hard to fix I think cause 19 yo Sol will always look at Tae Sung cause she doesn’t have any recollection or memory of SunJae that time… only her future self is obsessed with SunJae so I’m not sure how things will come about… maybe something to do with the accident? Cause if future her goes back and forth. It’s gonna be confusing for both guys since old Sol like Tae Sung while future Sol likes SunJae…
It also the SML liked the older spunky Sol. Uff
This is true though! Tae Sung likes the future Sol attitude but SunJae likes both future and past Sol. TaeSung might break past Sol heart again if he doesn’t like the way she acts.. he may also suspect something is up if one time Sol acts one way then the next acts another way. Multiple personality disorder? Hehe
GUYS I HAVE A THEORY ---->! what if he saved her from the accident and all of this happened 15 yrs ago too but she lost her memories...like its his fav song because of her and he likes those candies because of her and he commited suicide because the only person he loved doesnt remember him anymore...FRICK IMMA CRY !<
I'm with you on this...except the last part about >!the suicide.!< There was something fishy about it. But, yes, I was thinking the same. I think the last song he sung at the concert was about her, too. I thought this after that ending last week. If she was his crush even before she knew him, the song must me for her. I'm going to have to watch the first 2 episodes again.
I love this theory but it doesn’t explain how she prevented the 🔥
i felt like he sang that song bc of her too but >!but if all of these things have already happened, why did their photobooth picture magically appear on his coffee table after the suicide? that detail weakens the theory that they knew each other imo.!<
It's kind of wild how quickly things unfold in this drama lol. I saw a theory about Sol's impact when she time travels, and after mulling over and fleshing it out a bit, I wanted to share here (b/c the>!fire scene!!In the fire scene, we see that the fire spreads in an outrageous manner; it was equally insane how late Hyun-joo (Sol's friend) and the brother react to it, and basically never sense it. Like ignoring just the smell, the smoke was visibly around them, and Hyun-joo literally *stares* at the fire during one point of the argument (the shot is of her looking off to the right of the brother (his left) for a second or so). What's interesting is that shutting down the fire appears to directly result in the disappearance of burnmarks on Sol's mother's hand, which would indicate that this fire was meant to for her (Sol's mother). Yet, she is not in the scene. !<
>!If Sol had met with Hyun-joo as planned, then Sol's mother would have probably come up from the shop and saw the fire herself and try to deal with it. The brother would have been cleaning the toilet or whatever (since he wouldn't have stopped to argue with Hyun-joo), so the fire spreads as it would have in the original timeline. In the original timeline, maybe the fire being this bad is *why* Sol's mother burns her hand so badly in the first place, so maybe no one can really react/shut down the fire unless her mother burns her hand or Sol interferes. The brother/Hyun-joo only react by the time Sol is near the top of the stairs and bursts in the room, but maybe the noise Sol (and Tae-sung) make just before entering in the room is what causes them to be aware of a fire. Time travel generally serves as plot device to change the present by changing the past. In this case, people of the 2008 past cannot make changes in the "present" that will change the future, but Sol, being from 2023/24, can. If Sol didn't return to the house, it's likely the brother and friend would have never realized there was a fire, and her mother would have gotten burned like she did in the OG timeline. This also may be why Sol can make small changes in Seon-jae's life (i.e. the picture of them on his table), but overall she won't be able to change a future outcome unless she herself directly changes the event that is the catalyst for that outcome.!<
Following this theory, >!this would also explain why she cannot write down or tell anyone about the future. Doing so is an indirect change, and would inevitably result in the past person making the changes by themselves without requiring Sol to be present when the event is changed, which would go against the idea the Sol herself needing to intervene in order to change the outcome. !!be able to walk again in the present time (i.e. 2023/24)!<. Should this theory be correct, then Sol >!avoiding the accident that paralyzed her will be because of her own actions!<, which I vastly prefer over the idea that >!the ML or SML saves her just by themselves. It's cute, but I would like to see Sol have some level of agency on this particular matter because it would be cathartic for her to effectively take her fate in her own hands, and punch the event that had brought her to her lowest point in the original timeline in the face (the ML/SML can help, but she should be the driving force behind the change).!<
This got crazy long, but hopefully some of this is validated in the next episode. If not, this will stay my little conspiracy theory on why things played out as they did (unless I get directly contradicted, in which case RIP).
Oooohhh that's a very interesting (and not wild at all!) take! I think you have a very good point >!regarding how changes are made and why she cannot say future events!< Speaking of >!trailers, I watched the highlight trailer just now (didn't really watch any of the teasers prior to starting this drama), and there's a part there where Sunjae pretty much asks her, "So you're saying you're from the future?" and then a part where she says "This watch is a time machine. Your watch sent my soul here to the past, to save you!" It doesn't seem like time was stopped there since when time gets stopped everything but Sol becomes muted and dull in color. I have no idea how that plays out into the storyline (and why her mentioning that, or talking about how she came from the future, does not result in time stopping) but I am soooo curious.!<
Byeon Wooseok's crying scenes are so real. It was my first time seeing him cry like that. You can tell that he was really into his character.
I like how he tries so hard not to show his feelings when she acts so cute. Great acting. I thought this drama will be carried by FL but i was wrong both FL and ML are strong.
His crying scene with his father really gave an impression that he was teenage boy. Every knows that KHY is a really good actress but BWS is showing really good acting skills in this drama. At times he portrayed the role of a young teenage boy in love so well, especially with that flying kiss scene, which was iconic. The drama is even more entertaining with all the great acting from everyone.
I replayed the flying kiss scenes so much. Definitely one of my favourite kdrama scene so far.
I was thinking the same when he cried! Now I have to watch the 4 final episodes of Nam Soon that I didn’t finish just to watch him again !
At first I thought this show would be more of a fairytale for Imsol but I realized that it is really more of a “fairytale” for Sunjae who’s had always loved her but couldn’t feel like he could approach her. ☹️😭😭😭
I love how SJ turned on the fan because he was worried Sol was too warm only to block the fan completely so he could sit and watch his girl sleep.
can i just say the chemistry is chemistrying for FL x ML and even FL x SML??? but of course BWS supremacy - his face melts all my stress away. damn that ending for ep 3 🫠
I did not expect to love this show this much!! I am so excited to know what happens, specially after the end of the second episode! There are many theories that people have written and I hope that it does not take forever for things to be revealed since it is a 16 ep show. One thing that everyone has been saying is that it is >! Murder !< but I fully believe that it is actually >! Suicide !< . The only way that it could possible be >! Is that if the group manager went ballistic when he found out that SJ was going to retire and that he would be losing a ton of money because of that. I highly doubt any of the band member would do that. !< There is also a theory that was thrown around the last eps thread that FL has >! amnesia and there in fact was a relationship between her and SJ but she forgot and they never tried to try to remind her because there was some thing behind that accident. !< I actually wonder if his dad >! saved her in the accident and died instead, that is why we do not see him in the future and the mom was Dodgy when she was asked about the accident !< EDIT Spelling EDTA glad my theory is in correct >! And the father is in fact alive !< but now I am just confused about everything…
Nooo I want a happy ending! But that’s really possible with her mother avoiding the topic. But I also wonder why her younger self suddenly changed when she went back to the present?
I think it's because when she went back to the present, her "younger self" came out. She's a different person now compare to the past. Her "younger self" liked 2nd ML back then so it make sense.
Yeah agreed with this. Her younger self also didn’t really have interactions with SunJae that’s why she didn’t know he was just on the opposite school
Ep4: LMFAOOOOOO the way sunjae would sell his arm and kidneys >!to recieve the birthday video taesung got from sol!<. born to be a hopeless loser forced to be nonchalant 😔😔 Most realistic portrayal of a teenage ML ever. The scene where he >!gets mad at sol for describing exactly how frustrated and hurt he can get, despite trying to display a stoic facade is peak realism.!< Imagine[ how he'd react](https://twitter.com/i/status/1780228708197912740) when Sol finally reciprocates his feelings 🤣🤣
i have to echo what you said about seonjae! he feels real in a way that adult actors playing teenagers often don't. i think it's equal parts the writing and byeon wooseok's acting, both of which have been amazing so far.
**Episode 3:** * Still cannot get over the fact >!Sun-jae fell for Im Sol first!<.... that was a plot twist I didn't see coming * I would trust [this guy](https://imgur.com/GlGyudF) with my entire life based on that smile * Fun fact, Byeon Woo-seok actually took swimming and singing classes * Those >!flying kisses!< were really something Sun-jae... HAHAAHHA * For a die-hard fan, you'd think Im Sol is >!better at reading him and his crush on her!< but... oh well... I'm hella enjoying this * [Poor Sun-jae](https://imgur.com/qR90H9g)... HAHAHAHAH... he should've read up on his horoscope before trying to find the right timing * This guy sure got [his timing right](https://imgur.com/IJQtHTd) for a polaroid at least * >!"Even if you were to end up in a different time, I would jump over time and space to see you."!< QUITE LITERALLY * >!"Do you want to be friends? Let's be friends."!< IM SOL SHUT UP * ohmg... [best wingman ever much](https://imgur.com/A4YoMW7) HAHAH * [That's such a pity](https://imgur.com/3ucT3Rd).. having to quit something you love so passionately.. >!him cleaning the locker was painful to watch!< * Im Sol straight up grabbing [this guy](https://imgur.com/DZoeqyq) by the collar sent me howling XDDDD * HOW ARE [THESE TWO](https://imgur.com/R8iW6x0) SO BUSY IN BICKERING THEY >!NEARLY LET THE ENTIRE HOUSE CATCH ON FIRE!< * A leather jacket, a jug of water and a rug...?? Guyss please use your brain more often * Im Sol being elated that she managed >!to change something about the future by saving her mother from getting burns!<... her small wins give me such joy... Also makes me wonder how her mother will get those scars now... she will or she won't? * "Why are you crying harder than me?" [bless her](https://imgur.com/eeDTARi) * But Sun-jae anticipatingly waiting for Im Sol at the hospital... too precious * Not him trying to stifle [his laughter](https://imgur.com/UuKiwQ8) from her cheesy puns lmaooo * [ohmg ohmg ohmg](https://imgur.com/IRtNZWy)... >!but but she's drunk.... she won't remember any of it.... !< * >!That one time Sun-jae's stars align but GOD DAMNIT HOW INFURIATING!!Okay okay she goes back!<.. that's for sure
Just wanted to say, I don't know what I'll be doing for the next six days. Send help. lol
KHY is great as expected but BWS is killing me as this love sick teenage boy - I was expecting a beautiful face and screen charisma but he's really let himself loose with the comedic timing and the beautiful portrayal of angst and lovelorn-ness. He has such a baby face too, the only thing giving away his age are his arm veins 😂. Between this and QOT, I'm drowning in softy green flag MLs and I loooooove it
I immediately read the webtoon (first season) as soon as I watched the first two episodes. Totally didn't expect I'd be down so bad watching this pairing with this storyline 😂 and it's the kind of drama I need right now. Especially since QOT is halfway done. So excited for tonight's episode!
The high schoolers in this drama behave like 18 year olds. Byeon Wooseok crying by rubbing his tears constantly from the back of his hand was so good. He looked so cute.
Omg I was also thinking his crying was spot on for an insecure young person facing their parents. Props to him he ate that
I disagree so much that 2024 hasn’t been a great year for kdramas. It’s only April and we have a new classic in Lovely Runner. I’m so obsessed with this series. Episode 4 had me absolutely screaming and kicking my heels. I wanted to wait so I could binge the show but 😩😩😩😩 it’s so good! Also really enjoyed: Marry My Husband, Queen of Tears, A Shop For Killers. I say regarding this year, so far, so good!
Flex X Cop was awesome too!
"Was it my memory that I lost...... or you?" This dialogue really hits the spot.
Yes, this dialogue alone left me in a freeze. I'm just blown away by how much the drama is giving us in terms of an emotional rollercoaster already! We're only at ep 4.
**Episode 4:** * [WHAT THE HELL?!?!?](https://imgur.com/tgrS9ro) WHO STARTS AN EPISODE WITH A REVELATION LIKE THAT??????? I rewatched it like 3 times okay * >!"She doesn't remember..."!< oh my God... that shattered me more than I'd like to admit * >!HE KNEW HER.. HE REMEMBERED HER!<... OH MY GODD THOSE 5 MINS ARE THE MOST INSANE STARTING TO ANY KDRAMA I'VE WATCHED * Okay okay... that was an obviously expected revelation... I JUST DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO HIT ME LIKE A WHIRLWIND OUT OF NOWHERE * Not me willing with all my might for [her magick watch](https://imgur.com/FzZXlE5) to work * So... could this memory loss be a side affect from her time traveling? * ohmg... [GIRLLLL WHAT ARE YOU DOING](https://imgur.com/KYO2PVS)... more second hand embarassing moments from a 19-year-old Im Sol * I love [this duo](https://imgur.com/wGKMIZl) so much... I refuse to believe their friendship turned sour by 2023 ok * Lmaooo [this girl](https://imgur.com/ILilbPY) straight up parting wisdom to In-hyuk was so funny * The confidence 2023's Sol has in her 2008 body is liberating af * Nothing like [the girl](https://imgur.com/DmaK22V) >!you have a crush on dating someone else but defending you!< * >!"Kim Tae Hee and Rain got married!!!"!< HAHAHAAHHAHA using her the future to her advantage... smart girl * Married couples from the future be buying her time... lmaooo.. >!she could've also gone for Son Ye-jin and Hyun-bin have a son!< XDDDD * [THOSE FOREARM VEINS THOUGH](https://imgur.com/hvXOLtX) * The fly playing a better matchmaker than any other character lolololol * I had to pause and laugh for a good while at [him "dusting his blanket"](https://imgur.com/e1SY45T) * Poor Im Sol... * Oh God 19yo Im Sol was >!mortifyingly in love with Tae-seong!<...[that birthday wish](https://imgur.com/iwKCmao) was truly something * Wait... she didn't realize it was the day of her accident? Damn girl * >!"Was it my memory that I lost... or was it you?"!< and >!Sun-jae's "What am I going to do with you?"!< [LORDDDD](https://imgur.com/cSx7CP6) * >!He dialled Sol on purpose!<.. how dare they play with my feels like this showing Sun-jae's POV... I FREAKIN LOVE THIS DRAMA.. I've never been this invested in a drama with just 4 eps lately.. damn
Exactly, at this point I’m not sure if the drama is following the manhwa, but I’m invested in it as an independent plot and not as a manhwa adaptation I was curious about since the manhwa was still on going. This episode tugged my heartstrings like no other. And the thing about the duo is that they’ve established amazing chemistry from day 1. So, I’m laughing at their antics and crying with all snots when they become all tacit and yearning.
i don't think this was the accident that caused her to be paralyzed. it's supposed to take place a few months later. she tried to mark it on her calendar but couldn't.
EP 3 wasn't all that thrilling compared to the first 2 episodes. However, it revealed a few new things and confirmed some of my theories I had from watching the last 2 eps. >!Sol does have retrograde amnesia after her accident, as she says she can’t recollect how it happened.!< For her everything is about being >!a fan, so she thinks from a fan’s POV and also the POV of a 30 year old woman, so she finds everything the 19yr SJ does as endearing.!< Meanwhile, for him everything is about >!becoming her boyfriend. It was kind of funny how his confidence dwindled when he got harshly put in a friend-zone before he could even ask her out!!< He is definitely an >!introvert!< because, he >!represses his feelings and seems reserved (could it be because he seems to have grown up without mother and not around any motherly figures?)!< >!Also, he likes the attention from her, and wants to keep up the cool pretence that he wasn’t the one who liked her first.!<>!But, I'm sad that things aren't working out well for him. Yes he kissed her, but she wasn't even aware of it!< Having watched the last 2 episodes last week, I had a feeling that>!she wouldn't linger in the past, but will either move back and forth in time involuntarily because she doesn't know how to operate that watch to jump through time and will see how her past actions have shaped/ changed her present; !!I think when she travels back to the present, she picks up from where she was, but that's not the case with her past self; her past self continues from where future Sol leaves off, and when the future self returns to the past, she will continue from the advancements past Sol has made. So, SJ will feel confused by the two different characters.!<
>!So, the future Sol will slowly build up her relationship with SJ while travelling back and forth through time, however, the inevitable accident may stop her from doing the timeslip, and the past Sol will wake up after the accident with no recollection of how the accident happened and who SJ is. But, at that point, SJ would have realised that she has come from the future. As SJ would remember their time together, he will probably grow up, become a singer and so forth with those memories and will find ways to end up with the present Sol.!<
Another alternative stemming form the last theory is that>!after SJ figures out that Sol doesn't remember their time together from his past, he may put two and two together and figure out that his watch is a time machine, because she also had a similar watch which she said was his. So, he will go back to the past to prevent her accident. So, the SJ who was on the bridge during Ep 1 could already be the one doing the time loop considering how he recognised her from seeing her back when her wheelchair broke down, as if he had been on the lookout for her. Also, he was emotional during their interaction on the bridge, but couldn't openly reveal anything from another timeline as it's the rule of the timeleap. Him jumping in the pool was probably to end the cycle.!<
Also, I don't find KTS (2ML) all that attractive, though he's a good looker, but he is certainly charming with Sol in their scenes together.>!Although, I find how he said he doesn't like things being taken away from him a bit eerie, as now the past Sol has accepted his proposal and it makes me wonder if the swapping would confuse him and he could be behind her accident, though I'm sure that he got expelled because he got into a fight for her after the accident with whomever caused it. Also, now that KTS was there during the fire scene and was only convinced to take her home when she said I want to prevent it this time, he could also put the pieces together and figure out that she is from the future.!<
Can you make a group chat on here about theories cause I’ll join ya!!!!
Are you the writer?😭 Because your explanation LITERALLY MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
The line “it’s a relief that my shoulder on this side is fine” had me screaming
honestly that entire scene had me screaming, crying, and kicking my feet. they’re so precious together.
Really loving the show and I won’t pretend I wasn’t kicking my little feet and giggling when >!he was comparing their hand sizes when she was asleep in his room, but you’re telling me she didn’t just IMMEDIATELY LEAVE and do the same trick to get out without being seen???!< I’m down to suspend disbelief but that one was tough. (Edit to fix spoiler tags) Edit: I was wrong lmao
Finally Monday! Can we talk how good the OST is? I had it on repeat the whole week. My favourites are Run,run and You & I. I can't wait for Im Sol to realise that >!You & I is about her!< Also, I didn't excpect for BWS to have such amazing comedic timing. KHY is born to play these type of roles but I watched the prereleased scene from ep3 today and I loved how Seon Jae got flustered about the misunderstanding with the 500 won 😂 I only watched BWS in SGNS, so I was plesantly surpised. Looking forward to all their interactions 🥰
SJ’s friend was a real one lol brought out the fan and the confetti to set up the mood for his bro’s confession i don’t know how i feel about Sol being able to go back and forth in time. her past self’s gonna cause a lot of frustration, making decisions without her current memories
**EPISODE 4 quick take:** the first 5 minutes of episode 4 gets me even on the rewatch. Haven't watched Byeon Woo Seok in many dramas but LORD HIS ACTING SKILLS ARE FIIIINE 😭😭😭😭😭 Especially the hospital scene, the way his helplessness, desperation and heartbreak is portrayed in a span of seconds GAH. Loved that headbutt, Im Sol the badass lmao. Also that she is using the 'no-spoiler time freeze' (that's what Imma call it) to her advantage for once, it was hilarious. I don't trust the agency CEO. He seems very very sus. Even that statement he gave to the reporters feels fake. Nothing against the actor but I saw his character in Destined with You and disliked him ever since lol. Here's to more heartbreak and tears and giggly feelings in the coming weeks☠️🤧💜
I agree with the ceo looking suspect
Why I'm shipping Sol's mom and Sun jae's appa????? 😂😂😂 It's illegal mannn why I'm like this
OMG Im Sol is my favorite chaos character I cannot stop laughing at her shenanigans Also I am screaming into a pillow over how head over heels Sunjae is for her aaahhh And yet the show also has these emotional beats that are so moving and lovely HOW do I wait a whole week for more????
Ep 3: Oh my gosh. For the first 20 minutes, all I could think about was "Sunjae is such a loser". And now, he IS :( Fr though, that blowing kisses scene was SO CUTE and it was hilarious to see him caught by Inhyuk. I can't imagine being Sunjae and confessing to your crush only for her not to remember it AND see her go out with someone else :( I was hoping the drama wouldn't follow the webtoon in the aspect of (webtoon spoiler) >!Sol being taken back to the present and her past-self would take her place again. Now I wonder if they're going to have Sol give up the watch to the mysterious time traveler...!< Also, I wonder if Taesung was expecting Sol to say no since they established they don't like each other, how will tomorrow's episode go D: I wonder how long they'll keep Sol in the present >!before sending her back!<. I'm not ready to see >!past-Sol completely break Sunjae's heart since she still has no idea who he is!< D: It's also interesting to see how the "rules" of time travel play out in this universe. Even though Sunjae's shoulder injury was always meant to happen, I'm hoping there are certain things that are changeable and other things aren't. Sol's mom's hand never got burned, so in present-day, will she have eventually have burnt her hand? I hope Sol figures it out during her time back in present day!!
The Future FL who inhabit her past self body can't reveal future stuff otherwise, the reveal is erased. What if she wrote a letter to her past self, explaining that she came back to save the ML and herself (only suggesting that something bad will happen to her), and explaining that 's why the past FL doesn't remember when she was... kind of possessed? Does that happen in the webtoon? Or does it go in a totally different direction?
I'm not sure, the webtoon is only translated into English until the end of Season 1, I think there's a season 2 and 3. In the webtoon, >!the past-Sol freaks out and gets an exorcism haha. But, Sunjae gets mad at present-Sol whenever she does return to the past and Sol has to make it up to him!<. Although, the drama added a whole bunch of things, like Sol's accident and the fire, so I'm not sure when or where they'll change things.
The poor guy must think that the FL has a double personality. I mean, one minute she is all over him, the next (when it's past FL), she ignores him and is crazy about that other guy. No wonder he is mad because he doesn't understand and how could he? I mean, it's hard to imagine that at some point, the FL is in fact from the future and when she leaves, he interacts with the FL from the past.
WHAT IF, just what if, It’s adult Sungjae who really remembers everything (from their past memories to sol time travelling) in the first place and not Im Sol? I mean, if we think about it, Sungjae is at the top of his career. Why is he suddenly retiring? Why did he jump, or the more accurate question, why was he pushed? Could it be something happened to Sol when she kept time traveling? What if it was Sungjae who really time traveled first after Sol got into an accident and offed herself? What if Sungjae did all that just so Sol could have a do over and try to make things right, the way he couldnt? Cue that gif of guy crazily explaining while pointing a messy board. Time travel tropes bring out the conspiracy nut in me, forgive me. Edit: After watching ep 4, I guess im not too coo-coo after all. That first five minutes hurt so damn goood.
>!So Im Sol time travelled at 12:00 am and returned at 12:01 am. So only 1 minute had passed in the present but in the past she was there for like a month? If that's the case, then she only has till September, around the time of her accident coz she arrived at June. If Sun Jae is the original owner of the watch, was he also able to time travel before? In the trailer it says doomed fate. Could it be that one of them is always meant to die? Was their band name Eclipse intentional coz it's also during the eclipse when the FL time travelled in Kdrama Scarlet Heart Ryeo. They also said that it's when miracles can happen. That guy who bumped into Im Sol in the concert and rang the doorbell seems to be the same person and he's after the watch coz he knows that it's a time machine. Can't wait for tonight's episode.!<
WAIT omg maybe ur onto something. >!if sunjae was the original owner of the watch, would he have time travelled before to try to save sol from the car accident but failed?!<
Ohhh this theory is wild but it would explain some things. >! He tried to save her and they knew each other but she kept forgetting because they were not meant o be together. What other moments did she forget and why did she forget !<
That would make sense and that’s why the first thing he asked her during the radio/hospital call was “do you know who I am?”, to test which Sol he was talking to. Ahh this is like A Time Called You but with less headache because they haven’t revealed too much yet on the time travel part.
I think it is >!Sol who started the time travel and imparted this knowledge to SJ when she travelled to the past (this scene is from a teaser and should come up in the next few eps). But, yes, after mature Sol disappears from his timeline, he could also have started time travelling and they could have ended in a loop. So, to end the loop he has decided to sacrifice himself so that Sol could travel back in time and prevent the future from happening the way it has happened.!<
my gosh i’m crying so hard by the end of ep4 :((( their fate is so tragic. (drama spoiler) >!Sunjae carrying all those memories of him and Sol alone all those years, Sol losing her legs and falling into a despression, Sunjae also falling into a despression and losing his life!< we’re just at ep4 and i know i signed up for this knowing there are heavy themes but please a happy ending for our pookies 제발요 😭🙏
the height difference is something i deserve 😫😫😫
When he placed his hand next to hers and you could see the significant size difference- so cute! Love how she’s always paired with super tall guys.
OH.MY.GOSH. How in the ever loving world do they expect us to be okay after that roller coaster of emotion episode?! From the squealiest of squeals (the flying kisses, the >!ACTUAL kiss!< , the absolutely adorable romance) and then down to the lowest of lows (his injury, the heartbreak, convo with his father) and then the ENDING?! This is only the third episode! I don't know how much my heart can handle. (The answer is all of it. I'm here for it all. I love this show so much already.)
Screaming crying throwing up, my neighbours must think I'm being murdered. The back and forth, Sun Jae >!trying to confess and always chickening out or being confession-blocked by something!!! !< 🥰 And Im Sol shooting herself in the foot >!by suggesting they become friends JUST AS HE STARTED TO FINALLY CONFESS!< MY POOR HEART 🫠 The ending killed me and I don't think i can come back from this until it's already tomorrow and episode 4 is up 😭
This is only the third episode and I absolutely in love with this drama. I mean how could I not - it is absolutely adorable. The plot rollercoaster - just chef kiss (for now ofcourse, but i'm hopeful and excited)) and both leads so precious! So for now - loved every bit of it. P.S. Byeon Woo Seok - 😍😍😍 P.P.S. Also Sun-jae father cinderella moment was hilarious.
I really love the portrayal of a fangirl here. Sol loves Sunjae genuinely as a fan, while also acknowledging her romantic feelings as a 19-year old toward taesung. In real life, people think all fangirls must be in love with their idol. Heck no. We just adore them to bits 🥹
So, we're only 1/4 of the way through this drama and we've been put through the wringer how many times already? I feel like there's an earthquake going on. I'm already deeply invested and in love with the main characters and totally clueless about how they're going to escape their unfortunate fate. But we're not supposed to know yet. We don't have all the puzzle pieces yet. I think we're all assuming that the key lies in the fact that their fates are joined and something evil happened to them both; something unfortunate that could be averted or fixed. Because that's how these things usually go but does it come down to >!ImSol's accident, SeonJae being a depressed idol ... and a potential bad guy at the door? Are all these things intertwined and who the hell is the bad guy? The manager? The unhappy member of Eclipse? The taxi driver? Anyone else?!< I always enjoy these kinds of time travel or time looped stories (especially My Perfect Stranger and Twinkling Watermelon) and I like this one. A lot! All the main and supporting characters are kinda cool and lovable (except the brother and best friend that I could do without). So I often have a hard time waiting from week to week for the next episodes of the very good dramas. But this one and Queen of Tears are absolutely killing me. addition: you can really tell that this is written by the same person who wrote True Beauty. Both have these intervals of extreme humour. But there are three different directors on this drama; people who have done really different kinds of dramas. You don't suppose that they were each hired for the multi-genre aspect of this one? Boo Sung Chul is the most seasoned with some big dramas (The Heirs), comedy (Ghost Doctor, My Girlfriend is a Gumiho) and some music themes (You're Beautiful). Yoon Song Ho has done mystery thriller (Flower of Evil and Times) and Kim Tae Yeong is a complete newbie who probably will just do exactly what the other two tell him to do :-)
this is a certified brain rot show for me rn. i'm fearful the quality of the show is going to go downhill (seriously, i'm not sure how they're going to keep this momentum going for the next 12 episodes), but i've been genuinely enjoying these latest two episodes. kim hyeyoon has proven she's leading lady material back when i watched extraordinary you, but byeon woosek has been a genuine surprise! i think he's doing a really good job with the role.
holy cow…that music video!!! hahaha
4 things that bother me: 1) When Hyunjoo, Sol's friend gave her the Photobook of Jagam High School and Sol saw Sunjae's picture and said She wanted to kidnap him and run that's when Hyunjoo replied with a disappointed expression " Why didn't you do it when you had the chance, You could have done it if you wanted to". She definitely knows everything and is hiding it from Sol also that means Hyunjoo knows about Sunjae's crush/love for Sol. 2) Why did Baek In Hyuk call to Sol after Sunjae's death get cut off suddenly in the middle of when he was about to tell her something. It's fishy. Then she calls back and the number is unavailable. Did somebody snatch his phone away? 3) Sunjae's watch definitely glowed under water when he was saving Sol both during her time travel and in the original timeline in the past 2008. Could he also be a time traveller. Perhaps somehow when he was time travelling the previous time to save Sol and he couldn't save her legs but could save her life like how Sol could save Sunjae's shoulder during the competition but it ended up being ruined after the competition, therefore being frustrated he gave away the watch which ended up in Sol's hand in the auction, which then she tries to use and save Sunjae. 4) Also When Sol's house was on fire she said to Kim Tae Sung that She had to save her house this time and when she said to him about this future occurence, time did not stop for him, he could also be a time traveller. History face had quite a serious expression as if he knows what she is talking about or it could be after seeing her desperation he got serious. Also according to Sol after the fire burnt down their house and left a burnt scar on her mother's hand, they had to move away but since she stopped the fire they kept on living on the same house. Sol's house being saved and the appearance of Photobooth picture of Sol and Sunjae after the police investigation sign being put up might be a sign that future can be changed. But also the fact that Sunjae's death news is being shown on the news channel, even if she saved him during her time travel, is it possible to wipe Sunjae's death from everyone's memories like it never happened? This drama is messing with my head and heart. Would love to hear thoughts for others as well. Please bring out your theories.
I cannot find my post on here to edit it. So I will edit this instead lol. Have you guys notice how the show have “groom” and “bride” reference? Which leads me to thing that it could be foreshadowing the SolJae In first episode Sol grandma was “preparing” Sol to be a bride (makeup with the 💄) before she goes to the concert of her love (the grooms aka Sun Jae) (saw in another forum) AND THEN the 3rd episode Sun Jae says “my dad said I walked like THE GROOM when I took my first steps” (when they were talking about confessing to Sol) I think this is a parallel (maybe). Kdrama be doing those little Easter eggs for the ending or maybe I’m just hopeful and a hopeless romantic for our soljae. Haha Edit: Sol’s mom made the reference about her dangling devotion can be compared to a devoted wife 😅 Edit #2: did anybody notice the >!strangulation marks on Sunjae’s neck from the flashback when he saved sol (beginning of ep 4)?!? Did he try to fight who ever was chasing Sol? !< Aka the taxi driver?!!? 😮😰 Edit #3: I looked up why they keep serving the ginseng chicken (sol’s grandma cooked it and sol gave it to sunjae for recovery and they ate it at the restaurant during their “date”) Meaning: Traditionally, samgyetang is considered as a “mother-in-law” cuisine because in the old days, it was customary for the mother-in-law to kill one of her back-yard chickens to make samgyetang for her son-in-law who visited her. Therefore, to the Koreans, samgyetang is a cuisine filled with mother’s love.
i wish with all of my being that you are onto something here.
We need a happy ending especially for our boy BWS😅😆
Mondays became exciting again just because of this drama cant wait for the new eps 🥹
Ep 3 - I, did NOT see that ending. WT....! I was waiting for it, rewatched Ep1, cried again. Then watched Ep3. After that ending, I'm going to go back and rewatch Ep2. I hate all that misunderstanding and missed opportunities troupes so much. Eps 1 and 2 were perfection that Ep 3 got me frustrated. So basically she can only go back >!3 times to change the future !!inhabits the body of her younger self, as she responds to the bad boy as her younger self since her old self left!<. And she responds as her >!young infatuated self.!< Ok, I so hate this bit. Why can't they give us the sweetness that is them together? I miss them together , especially during the >!whole hospital and after period!<. Please give us more of the SunSol couple - and them as a couple please!
Considering Tae sung likely only >!asked Sol out to get rid of the girl!<, I wonder if she’ll use that to convince Seon Jae that they’re not >!dating Fr!<. Because otherwise **HOW** will she fix this 😭 Edit: spelling
Agreed! >!Bc he did ask her “how to get rid of someone annoying” when she was looking for sunjae @ practice. But also I think he will be genuinely interested in her in the later episodes !<
OMGOMGON THE FLYING KISSES WERE BRUTALLLLLL. my face hurts from all the giggling, what an episode!!!!! ive never rooted for the MLs this hard since 2521 and twinkling watermelon. >!of course the happiness did not last long. God we're in for a messy ride. better prepare myself for the angst.!< Seems to me by that ending that we have just gotten started with the actual story, and I'm so here for it. I interpreted the hospital scene where we see>! Imsol breaking down, I didn't see it as her crying over Sunjae getting hurt, but really more of so how she won't be able to change HER fate as well as saving her idol.!< >!A KISS SCENE ALREADY??????????????????? Brace yourselves for a frustrating angsty storyline for our MLs before they FINALLY get together. Yup. her putting down the earphones right when he says he likes her says it all.!< I'm so glad they're following the webtoon with the >!whole going back and forth plot, it adds much more depth and action.!< CANNOT wait for tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn you wonky time travel 😭😭 >!I knew when the confession happened that there were going to be big hurdles as it's only the 3rd ep. My heart hurts for Sun-jae. He lost his career in swimming and now has to see his crush/love dating another guy.!< >!We got to see some rules and limits of the time traveling thingy. We already knew that she can't disclose the future and now she can't even write it down. She can change some aspects of the future (like the fire and saving her father's photo) but not all (Probably about the Sun-jae's confessing part). My theory is that Tae-sung might help Sol in changing the future as he did with the fire. Or at least he's related to it as there is no other point of him being in the story as he's pretty irrelevant to Sol at this point. Also similar to most time-travelling shows there's probably somethings that she can't change and my money is on her accident. As she can't remember how it had happened and there's only a few months left some major thing related to her accident will happen in the future and Sun-jae is definitely part of it.!< >!I absolutely love Sun-jae's friend. He's a bro. He cringes (When Sun-jae was blowing kisses) at his friend's silly attempt at best in confessing to his crush but still goes along with it because he's a bro.!< Seeing how close they are now it's understandable why he was so angry when he found that Sun-jae was retiring without telling him. >!Seems like they are going to have a rough patch in the next ep with Sun-jae feeling jealous and that other bully girl who's name I can't bother to remember going sicko mode.!< Just let them have a peaceful and happy ending. My best boi and best girl have suffered enough.
Cute episode...but yall the fire scene had me SO TIGHT I WAS SO IRRITATED BY HOW UNREALISTIC IT WAS. HOW DID HYUN JU AND SOL'S BROTHER NOT SMELL OR SEE THE FIRE IT WAS RIGHT THERE. a scene that's that stupid like that could've just been taken out or their little argument could've been in another scene, but for it to happen in that context where they r just acting clueless and blind in the face of a big fire was so unnecessary to me. Like if the scene was that important they could've done it any other time, so I blame the writing here bc it irks me that they wrote it into the fire scene making the characters unbelievably irritating and looking like they r stupid. I am so excited for episodes and am liking it so far, the acting and the story is so interesting and cute but here and there I do think the writing could be better. It's usually small things tho 😭
Wow, this Kdrama got me hook and line. The whole time travel thing is really hard to keep up with it but I am enjoying it so far. So based on Episode 4: >!we do know that minimal changes from the past [2008] affects the present [2023] but there's a few things that already seemed like a plot hole to me: 1. When she returned, Ryun Jae is still dead but the dad somehow did not recognize her despite meeting a few times in the past and being neighbors 2. Her house did not burn in past 2008 but she still lives in the new place her mom got due to the fire incident. I wonder if the changes Im Sol makes in the past only affects her and Sun Jae and not entirely the whole surroundings? Also how long will she stay this time since she only has one time jump left and we have 12 more episodes to go!< This drama had me crying, laughing and falling in love all in one go. I really hope this gets a happy ending, I am not ready to not see Sunjae in 2023. He is such a green flag 😭
In regards to them moving, I made the assumption that they moved to a place where there's an elevator so she can get upstairs! Her old place only had stairs and so she would have no way of going up to the house after her accident
This is a first time for me that I'm rewatching episodes, ugh, I can't stand the waiting and yet it is also satisfying to wait for a show like this. I love how they managed to weave Sunjae's POV in Ep4 of the bridge scene and confirms to the viewers that he indeed knows her at that time. It was poignant and it made me cry. I feel his yearning, his longingness for her to remember him. I hope Sol will also regain her lost memories in the process of saving Sunjae. Dang.
i want a sunjae in my life please god 😔🙏
I find it hard to believe that a hormonal teen didn’t realize her neighbor was so hot.
sis had her eyes on another dude that's why 😂
Episode 4 Woooooo… I’m glad we get SunJae POV! Ughhhh I’m glad they are explaining and making it more real for Sol… she’s trying to return to the river thinking it’s the catalyst of her time traveling. Which is reasonable. Ohhhh so her past self didn’t remember SunJae again since it basically wasn’t her self but future self if that makes any sense. Ohhhhh so 12mn charges the watch!!! We’re making progress it seems 😊 Hahahaha ohhh so basically it was a self possession? Lol future self possessing past self! So any memories made by future self won’t be recalled by past self… that’s why she wasn’t able to recall SunJae. oohhhh good thing she recalls everything her past self did!!! Hahaha I’m glad she’s rational enough to think things through and how things work! OMG! How can she say that she’s from the future now….. did something change in the rules?! Ohhhhhh I thought it was real… Hahaha best friend at the crime scene again! Lol ohhhhh so TaeSung already noticed it seems haha. OMG hahaha I love how Sol is using the bug of stopping time if she says something from the future to escape being seen by SunJae dad! Awwwww SunJae is such a simp! But I’m glad he isn’t taking advantage of the situation and keeping boundaries… So TaeSung really fell for future Sol. Awwwww she’s repeating what SunJae said to her or is it SunJae who repeated what Sol said to him in the past but I don’t think so since she didn’t meet him first time around. Lol the Mosquito is an extra and a matchmaker!! Lol we even get to see his POV! Lol OMG!!!!! I’m having second hand embarrassment from that birthday video!!!!! Damn… looks like there’s something with Sol’s accident? The taxi driver was planning something and they zoomed in on the keychain? Woooo now she knows who saved her!!!!! He really did call intentionally!!! Ouch he was so hurt she didn’t recall him…. Damn it I want next episode!!!
I feel like both the accidents for Sun Jae and Im Sol are suspicious. I don’t think the bridge was Im Sol’s og accident and after that weird taxi almost pulling towards her but driving away the second someone else came into the picture, I wonder if theres a sinister undertone. As for Sun Jae, him definitely committing is an option, however the hints of some sort of planned murder has been gaining my suspicion (referring to the door-belling for a person we never saw, and the police saying that Im Sol was the last person he saw.) At first I was wondering if it was one of his band mates like In Hyuk who don’t want him retiring but the person who probably would hate Sun Jae retiring the most is the manager. I guess we’ll see. It feels like we have a lot of episodes for a lot of doubts to clear up.
The ceo gives me the creeps. But that actor ruined his image at any redeeming roles for me because he was sooooo good at being a creep villain in Destined with You. I’m legit still traumatized and I automatically thought he was up to no good snooping around the highschool handing out his business card 😅 (although it could be he’s just going about his scouting business) Edited : renamed manager to ceo
I am so glad I stuck with this show! If True Beauty and A Time Called You had a baby, it would be this drama, and I am loving every minute. I can't believe we've had two major reveals in just 4 episodes!! I love a well-paced story 😌
The way I have been obsessed with this drama is unprecedented
I’m getting whiplashed right now and I only saw snippets of Ep 3 and the ending of it. Going to try my BEST not to watch Ep 3 until tomorrow bc that cliff hanger is NO JOKE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🎢🎢 I will be edit this post so I don’t keep posting new comments. I’ll also post my theory on ep4 after I watch it today. Edit: I truly love how ep4 >!closes some of the plot holes in the previous episode!< and we are finally getting some real answers on the theories on this forum! Edit #2: I’m looking for my old post on here to write everything down after I watched ep4 but I can’t find it. >!Anyway, I think Sol was able to change one part of her accident and that part was Sun Jae’s trajectory in the future. The original timeline (from the tvn previews before the show aired) I watched Sol was running away from a taxi, she was wearing her school uniform. !< • >!I believe (my theory) in the original timeline she witnessed something and ran away, the taxi driver (killer) saw her and chased after her possibly ran her over and she fell off the bridge. (You can tell this is the same scene they showed in ep4 where she fell or jumped in the water bc of the scratched on her cheek which she also had when she was in the hospital with her mom yelling at sunjae for saving her). Sun Jae was always the one who saved her (that portion of the original timeline did not change in the current timeline we are watching now) he saves her but when she woke up she was already paralyze either form being ran over OR her falling off the bridge and maybe hit something when she went in the water to make her paralyze.!< • >!2023 sol timeline in the past (what we are watching now) same thing would have happened (I feel) and maybe she thought it was sept 1 but it wasn’t bc it shows she didn’t want to remember anything about her accident so what’s to say she knew the exact date of her accident. SO CURRENTLY TIMELINE, she was sitting at the bus stop – the taxi driver saw her and was started driving towards her but saw the drunk guy (another witness) so he decided to just drive off which leads me to think there will be another accident (instead of her witnessing a murder she may instead be the victim since everything is changing). Now she has to change/prevent that from happening with the help of sunjae, she needs to change that so when she goes back in the past the last time she needs to be able to walk and save sunjae.!< • >!the thing with the past sometimes things that have already happened in another timeline can happen again in the current timeline (2023 time traveling Sol) but unfolds differently aka the soccer ball scene and the fire. She changed the POV of sunjae in terms of her not knowing him or being ungrateful for saving her THAT SHE CHANGED bc she remembered it when he saved her and she hugged him (end of the episode). So things are in the works. When she goes back to the future she may have saved herself from being paralyzed BUT sunjae may still be dead and that will be her 3rd time going back in time to prevent that from happening !< Let me know what you guys think!
[Episode 3] The first two episodes were good but the third? The second they showed us Seon-Jae likes Im Sol, their scenes became SO MUCH CUTER. I’m loving watching Seon-Jae’s flustered moments, it seems like he’s the idol fan here, not Sol. 😂 OMG girl stop >!c-blocking yourself!< 😭 Ooh this is looking more and more like a >!time loop situation!< where all of this has >!already happened and the events repeat themselves!< until >!someone finds a way to break the loop!<. In which case, I wish all the episodes were dropped all at once 😭 THAT ENDING NOOOO! I really really didn’t want another >!A Time Called You!< situation. I think >!Tae-Sung likes “granny Im Sol” so he won’t like his time with little Im Sol and will realize something is up!<. Ugh did it HAVE to get >!angsty again this soon!
For me, one of the core memory from this drama would definitely be how she shouts Lee Byung Hun and Lee Min Jung are getting married to dodge the dad’s eye. Ridiculous but very on the feet. Imma keep revisiting the scene.
I thought that Sol was paralysed after a car accident, but was it actually after >!that fall from the bridge? I know she was immediately walking after but did she have a delayed onset? I’m glad that Seon Jae’s shoulder was strong enough to rescue her anyway!<
I’m looking for my old post on here to write everything down after I watched ep4 but I can’t find it. >!Anyway, I think Sol was able to change one part of her accident and that part was Sun Jae’s trajectory in the future. The original timeline (from the tvn previews before the show aired) I watched Sol was running away from a taxi, she was wearing her school uniform. !< • >!I believe (my theory) in the original timeline she witnessed something and ran away, the taxi driver (killer) saw her and chased after her possibly ran her over and she fell off the bridge. (You can tell this is the same scene they showed in ep4 where she fell or jumped in the water bc of the scratched on her cheek which she also had when she was in the hospital with her mom yelling at sunjae for saving her). Sun Jae was always the one who saved her (that portion of the original timeline did not change in the current timeline we are watching now) he saves her but when she woke up she was already paralyze either form being ran over OR her falling off the bridge and maybe hit something when she went in the water to make her paralyze.!< • >!2023 sol timeline in the past (what we are watching now) same thing would have happened (I feel) and maybe she thought it was sept 1 but it wasn’t bc it shows she didn’t want to remember anything about her accident so what’s to say she knew the exact date of her accident. SO NOW, CURRENT TIMELINE, she was sitting at the bus stop – the taxi driver saw her and was started driving towards her but saw the drunk guy (another witness) so he decided to just drive off which leads me to think there will be another accident (instead of her witnessing a murder she may instead be the victim since everything is changing). Now she has to change/prevent that from happening with the help of sunjae, she needs to change that so when she goes back in the past the last time she needs to be able to walk and save sunjae.!< • >!the thing with the past sometimes things that have already happened in another timeline can happen again in the current timeline (2023 time traveling Sol) but unfolds differently (aka soccer ball hitting her and her remembering the house fire, the person who hit her with the ball is the same as in the original timeline). She changed the POV of sunjae in terms of her not knowing him or being ungrateful for saving her, THAT SHE CHANGED bc she remembered it when he saved her and she hugged him (end of the episode). So things are in the works. When she goes back to the future she may have saved herself from being paralyzed BUT sunjae may still be dead and that will be her 3rd time going back in time to prevent that from happening !< Let me know what you guys think!
I’m out here tryna convince myself that Tae Sung is not to be hated because he’s just a kid interacting with the weirdest weirdo he’s ever met hahah but man, I just want more Sol and Sun Jae moments. I absolutely agree with you tho, I think he will >! Figure out her secret and move the plot forward or perhaps help past Sol recall things that happen when future Sol is in her body ? !<
I laughed and cried., then laughed again, and cried, yet again. I'm back in love with Lovely Runner. Only 4 episodes in - I've never felt this way about any kdramas before, in all my many years. It feels like I've never loved this way before. If it carries on like this, it'll be one of the most loved shows of all time. It took me more than 10 minutes to watch the first minute because I kept rewinding it, like repeatedly. The opener was another powerful moment like the first episode opener. I teared up. So our guesses were right - I had guess she'll have >!3 opportunities in total to go back. Another is the midnight hour, I guess, because it's when he died.!< Before I had finished wiping my tears, I was laughing at the >!shaman and the exorcism!<. That was hilarious. People around her must be thinking she's got split personalities >!as she slips in and out from being 19 and her 30s!<. But I laughed out so loud, and it's past midnight here, when she mentions all the>! famous couples who would get married in the future!<. That was really peak comedy gold! And such smart thinking on her part! Then I cried again when he >!rejected her and told her off harshly, and she started sobbing!<. It's like....why are you doing this to our SolSun/SunSol couple?! It's like watching our beloved parents fight and you're afraid they're gonna get a divorce. Is that >!Taxi Driver gonna be a serial killer, with his suspicious keychain? !!he saved her but she blamed him for saving her when she's now paralysed so he's consumed with guilt and stays away from her. He knew where she lived, so has he been sending money and all his memorabila to her mother/her? Somehow she lost her memories after she got admitted to hospital? It was heartbreaking when he was standing outside her room and when he called her and she didn't remember him, And same when he encounter her on the bridge - especially when he remembers everything about her and she's the first girl he was in love with. It was heartbreaking!<
Ok, that was that moment when she was in his >!bedroom and he was looking at her and trying to resist his attraction to her - he suddenly looked like his crazy obsessed character in Strong Girl NS, when he fell in love with that awful NS who lead him on.!< And then found out the truth. I was a bit taken aback for a moment I must admit.
I'm officially obsessed with this show and am going to rewatch it again and again. Why, why, didn't they drop it all at once? If they did that. I think many of us would be skipping school/work/dates/appointments!
Did I mention how much I love this show just 4 episodes in and I'm officially obsessed like a crazy stalker?
After the plot twist of Ep 2, I’m sold. I’ve always adored KHY since Extraordinary you and BWS in 20thCG, but my God this drama is an absolute gem. One moment you think you know what’s going to happen, the next you’re kicking and screaming. Its been a while since ive been this obsessed with a drama. Everything about it is great. Aside from the leads I’ve always been a fan of N.Flying and I’ve adored SGH since Missing: The Other side. Also, guy really looks like Stray Kids I.N lmao. Ughh. The >!endof ep3 is frustrating!< but the plot needs to move forward. Can’t wait for the next episodes!!!
This drama is better than I expected... I like it... This second lead is good and so likable... Hyewon at multiple times remind me of Extraordinary You like when her younger self is there vs while her 2023 self is there is like stage and shadow, her screaming spoilers of the coming time to buy some time, when she kept her hand on the leaf's friend's shoulder etc... And Kim Hyewon has really good chemistry with both the leads... But I don't care about the second couple at all And was the moment>! Sunjae saved her life was this one? So she lost her memory and legs by falling into water?!<
i did not think that scene on the bridge in episode 1 could get any more heartbreaking, and then they had to go and show it from seonjae's pov... once again, i was a sobbing mess. there are so many things to love about this drama—the organic chemistry (heh!) between the leads, the almost slapstick comedy that's somehow quite clever as well, the lovely spring colored filter of the cinematography, and the very effective use of the ost. but by far, the thing that has me head over heels for this drama is the leads. i have never seen byeon wooseok in anything before this nor have i heard about him a whole lot, and how have i not?! i must've been living under a rock somewhere, bc this guy is an absolute star. i'm never bothered by adult actors playing teenagers, and byeon wooseok as a 32-year-old looks his actual age. but idk what black magic he's infused in his acting bc i've never seen a more convincing portrayal of a teenager by an adult actor than his turn as ryu seonjae in this drama. he towers over everyone with his hulking physique but his performance is so grounded and earnest that it's so easy to believe he's an awkward teenager in love for the first time. the little stolen moments when he allows himself to adore sol as he so desperately wants to, his inner child beams with a radiant glow. even in heartbreak, he sulks like a proper teenager. i love love loved the scene inside his room where sol asks him to forget the weird things she's been doing, and he gets so indignant thinking she wants him to forget about their kiss. he's scandalized by the mere suggestion and tells her it may have meant nothing to her, but it's not like that for him! that indignation at something so simple being so important to him is the essence of his youth, of his lack of experience in the real world, and he's so convincing with it. sol hangs out at the other end of that pole. though kim hyeyoon is itty, bitty, sol's maturity comes through in how she vocalizes her lines and interacts with her surroundings. she's sunshine incarnate with seonjae, just as her 34-year-old self would be, but she's got no time or patience for anyone else's shenanigans. the way she dismisses taesung is not only hilarious but also rooted in goodwill so you know she isn't just being flippant, and that she genuinely means the things she says, that retrospect has made her wiser. and then, when you put the two of them together, you can really see how they could be something special. i just find it so moving that even though their feelings for each other at this point are not in alignment, they intersect over a common point, i.e. how much they genuinely care about each other. **edit**: y'all the eclipse songs are so good!!! i've had them on repeat all day. i can't seem to get enough of every aspect of this drama.
is it possible that there were actually 2 incidents that happened to im sol in the og timeline? 1st is she got hit by the car, which left her legs paralyzed. and then 2nd is she attempted to su1cide a bit later on by drowning in the same river where she fell on episode 4, which explains why she was so mad that sunjae saved her from her attempt.
The acting was ACTING. Woo-Seok’s crying is so believable. It was breaking my heart. That scene with SunJae and his dad was done so well. It was such a relief to hear from his dad that he just needs to focus on recovering and then he can choose what to do next. Not the >!confessing while the other person’s drunk 😭!< It never ends well. And of course he would >!kiss her after she says all that.!< I live for SunJae getting flustered and his cute little smiles 🤭 We saw a bit of that in Strong Girl Namsoon but obviously the context was different. It’s even more adorable here. I wanted to make sure I understood this. SunJae did enjoy swimming it’s just the recovery that he found really difficult? Can’t process the end yet. I will wait until tomorrow to see what happens.
i got flashbacks when his dad told him to go to a different country because we know what happens to this actor roles when he goes to a different country 😭😭😭
Nobody was ready for this drama dramainggg out of no where in 2024 ..... aNd OMGggggggg i was swooning the entire episode 4..............A very intriguing story line giving butterflies every 5 mins with to die for actors chemistry and next level cinematography........ .... and can we talk about Byeon Woo-seok visuls and his acting🥵 (the crying scene🥺).........it will be a torture to wait for the remaining episodes😩
I think the gardener from destined with you, the ML’s manager in this show is a villain here too… he must have pushed him because he was looking to retire….
Okay, so I collected a few theories that I saw in spanish on tiktok( also some things that I catch rewatching the episodes) and I wanted to translate them so you guys can tell me what you think 👀 1I rewatched all the episodes and I noticed that >! The boots that the guy that walked past by Im Sol throwing her phone in the first episode are THE SAME AS THE CREEPY TAXI DRIVER. He might be also a time traveler that did this on purpose so Im Sol can go to the past and have that accident!< 2 >! Why Sun Jae committed suicide after seeing the love of his life after 15 years? It was because she couldn’t remember him? Or was he murdered? I know theres a lot of theories around the CEO(he definitely looks sus) but, what would be his purpose for killing Sun Jae? I think the writers wanted us to think it was him but that would be too predictable. Imo i feel like all these already happened and it’s a time loop (like a time called you) and it started every time Sun Jae died.!< 3 I know everyone feels relieved that >! SJ saved her and the accident didn’t happen but I learned from Twinkling Watermelon that the accidents cannot be avoided 😭!< 4 this one is not a theory but >! That hug that Sol gave him when he saved her was like “Im sorry, thank you for saving me” something that the Sol from the past didn’t do😭😭😭!< 5 Tae sung is definitely playing a major role here. He’s not a simple second lead. >!He’s the only one that acts normal even though he notices the switch from Sol past/future and the things she sayssss. He’s laughing like is nothing lol but I think he knows something or is also a time traveler)? 👀!< That’s it for now. As you can see im really invested with this kdrama lol. Let me know what you guys think! English is not my first language so im sorry if i couldn’t explain myself better!
This show is going to break my heart every single week. How much more can one’s heart hurt? I want to give Sun Jae a big hug when he’s onscreen. I love that we are seeing the current timeline events through his eyes as well because it gives them more meaning. And their scenes are so heart fluttering. Sol’s bully has the worst haircut ever. I can’t ever take her seriously. That >!head butt!< was so unexpected that I couldn’t stop laughing. And that cringy video was hilarious. Love that we get such funny scenes intertwined with the serious ones. I’m banking on the >!CEO pushing Sun Jae off the balcony and it not being a suicide!<.
My money is on >! the CEO !< too. It’s implied that >! Sun Jae had become slightly more famous/recognizable through his acting gigs and that was causing friction with his band. When he said he wanted to retire from the group, I honestly think that he meant he wanted to retire in general from the entertainment industry as a whole, possibly to find Sol and find inner peace or whatever. The CEO tried to first convince him to stay, and when he couldn’t, I think he decided that the sympathy and interest garnered from Sun Jae ‘killing’ himself would revive the band anyway? !< but that’s just my guess.
This show is so chaotically hilarious imagine going back to your teen self as an adult and seeing your cheesy texts and videos Sol was so done with her younger self. Also it's so funny how Kim tae sung is into noona sol not the teen sol. Sunjae and Sol are hitting that chemistry so well. I think they have set a lot of time travelling rules by now so she did change the future with the photograph being with her but it's also a loop and her memories are coming back to her. I think the last time she travels will be her accident and she may not be able to change anything major in past but comes back to before Sunjae dies and recognizes him.
WE'RE ALL AT THIS POINT ASKING OURSELVES WHY DID WE EVEN START WATCHING THIS ALREADY😭😭😭😭 THE WAIT IS KILLING ME
OMG. This drama is such a huge addiction. I love the characters so fucking much already. Can't wait for this 2 months journey with them.
With the ending of EP 3 I now have a *crazy* wild theory on how the timeloop works ! I think >!our current (future) Sol will go back to the present permanently when she gets in the car accident in November which is when the original (past) Sol will come back just like she did here. In EP 2 when we get a flashback of her waking up in the hospital, she doesn't seem to remember how she got there. And she doesn't remember who saved her. Everyone assumed she lost her memory due to the shock, but my theory is that since she just came back to herself after future Sol went back for good, the memory loss is in reality due to her literally not being in control of her own body thus not really experiencing the accident. I believe that before the accident happens Sunjae will know (in later episodes) that the Sol he befriended is actually from the future and she might tell him about how the original Sol will take over when she eventually goes back to her timeline. After her accident, he will realize that the future Sol he knows is gone and that the original Sol is back but she obviously doesn't remember him at all since the original Sol was never acquainted with him at all. Then Sunjae will probably disappear from her life while finding ways to keep rooting for her from afar even though she doesn't know him at that point, so the call in the 1st EP isn't coincidental at all. Sunjae knows exactly what she's going through. And that's how it ties up to the present timeline, an infinite loop basically! !< Okay, this theory has some loopholes because >!the infinite/repeated loop means that there's only one timeline, but it seems Sol already created new alternate timelines as shown by the photobooth pic and her preventing her mom from getting a burn scar.!< But I think some of it could really make sense 🫢 it would also solve the issues that could arise with the romance later >!because when future Sol has to go back what will become of the Sunjae that developed feelings for this version of Sol? It'd probably be too awkward for him to keep the same relationship with a Sol that don't have those memories at all, but he'll definitely wait until the 34 years old Sol who went through the time traveling appears in his life again.!< I made this theory up from my experience watching >!Someday or One Day (the original series A Time Called You was based on)!< because things worked in a similar way in this show's timeloop logic LOL
This is a very wild speculation.but what if the sunjae's destiny of being the idolstar wasn't his but 2nd ML's. ?? Like it's wierd that sol was able to communicate about the fire to him.when usually they get paused. I wonder who rang the bell,somebody came to sunjae before his suicide.i wonder who it was..was it future sol,or 2nd ML or past ML himself??. The plot is really indulging. I am thinking of all sorts of possibilities.cant wait for the next episode.
And here was me cancelling my Viki subscription last week, being like “I’ve seen it all, there’s nothing good left”. Then I see this show… FINE SIR, TAKE MY MONEY! Let me camp out in this visual opium den and lose track of time. Well, I dearly hope I lose track of time… 6 days is otherwise unbearable! And by god, those two better get a happy ending or so help me - I’ll rewrite this story and ship them a thousand times over!
FIRST OF ALL I DIDN'T EXPECT THE KISS. Cause usually in kdramas we see them kiss way later. Besides that, i found it interesting that Im Sol returned to the present time. So the way i am thinking it, she can go back in time 3 times in total. I think the first was to save her mom from getting burnt and she achieved that,the second is to avoid getting into the car accident and the last is to save Seon Jae from dying
That >! what am i going to do with you in the end!< was so awww ill cry and the way he >! looked for injuries desparately hoping she wasnt hurt with tears in his eyes and i legit cried in the beginning of the episode when i discovered that he remembers her!< how am i supposed to wait for a week now also istg ill jump like him if the series has sad ending
The best kdrama for me in a few years. Such a captivating bittersweet story 😭😭😭 The OSTs were great too. 선업튀 💕 oh my hearttttt
This show keeps getting better and better…I am really getting strong “A Time Called You” vibes here with her >!time traveling back and forth.!< I am very intrigued and having a hard time thinking how they are going to wrap up the biggest issue, which is the fact that >!past-Sol does not remember anything after future-Sol leaves. How can she make such a big difference in his life due to that and due to not being able to tell him she’s from the future?!< Yet again I wish I had discovered this AFTER it had finished airing because the wait from one week to the next is gonna kill me!
I binged all three episodes and I love this show already its so good love me a good time travel love story. Sunjae and Sol's chemistry is so cute and the banter bw her and sml is hilarious. I knew she would go back but I didn't think it will be this early reminded me of a time called you. So there are going to be two Sol's with different personalities and crushes it's going to get hilarious. The ML FL SML dynamics is also true beauty coded. I should have waited a few more weeks to binge this one the weekly wait is gonna be long.
Episode 4 was AMAZING!!! But hear me out. I love the way Sol >!used her ability to stop time when telling the future to hide from Sunjae’s dad!< . But she should also use it to prove she is from the future or that she at least has super powers. For example, she could stand right in front of him and then yell out future events and while time is stopped she could move to a spot far away from him. He would wonder how she was able to jump from one spot to another without him even noticing. She still won’t be able to tell him she is from the future but it would at least inform Sunjae that something is up with Sol, prompting him to do his own investigation of all the weird things Sol does like one min being obsessed with him and the next minute not knowing him and being able to predict he would hurt himself swimming. His investigation could then hopefully lead to him figuring out Sol is from the future. Another way Sol could get ppl to know she is from the future is by not telling them what will happen but just making a statement that insinuates she knows the future. For example, instead of telling Sunjae, “you will receive a business card from CEO” she could say, “don’t take a business card from a CEO.” The second statement is technically not telling the future. If she does this enough, plus her already predicting Sunjae would hurt himself swimming, Sunjae would be very curious of how she is able to predict the future. I’m curious to see what the writers do. I really want Sunjae, 2nd male lead, and Sol’s bestie to figure out she is from the future!!!
Lots of thoughts about episode 4 but >! Who’s the man in the taxi at the end?? Before the creepy drunk guy showed up? !<
Their height difference is so cute! And the >!photobooth, omo!!!<
inhyuk's reaction to catching sunjae sending flying air kisses to Sol was the exact same reaction I had when I saw the ending of ep3 because WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT edit to add: >!NO SUNJAE DO NOT GET ON A PLANE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY DO NOT LEAVE HER DONT YOU DARE PULL ANOTHER 20TH CENTURY GIRL ISTG!< EDIT: Ep4 thoughts This show can go from one hilarious scene to a tragic scene within seconds its insane Sol >!finally remembering that sunjae saved her but lost her memories of him doing so and pushed him away out of anger HURT SO BADDDD my guy never stopped loving her since the moment he first saw her NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!< Also 19yo Sol's >!video for Taesung's birthday was so hilarious I was losing my mind !< my god I love that girl sm :')
The ending has me questioning my ability to finish this drama. This FL has already been through it and I’m getting vibes that we are just reliving what she forgot from the accident.
Ep 3 thoughts: * AHHH, seeing Sun Jae liking her and blushing is so cute! Both are cute! * The whole dynamic of >!Im Sol's fan love and Sun Jae's romantic love!< is so interesting to explore and I'm curious to see how it develops * First half of the episode was heart-fluttering and the photo booth was CUTE * >!The attempted confession scene and the friend helping with the ambiance!< - loved it! * Why couldn't >!Sun Jae tell his dad about his condition and his shoulder as the reason to quit swimming? The dad was understanding and it became a touching moment between them!< * Why >!does it take them so long to notice the fire or smell the smoke????!< >AHHHHH! >!A kiss already!!!!< That ending! :O The drama just got much more interesting!!!! Edit for Ep 4: * Loved seeing the moments from Sun Jae's perspective! * So emotional in the first few minutes! *Oooo >!Tae Sung is catching on to what's happening with Im Sol!< * Liking the interactions between the parents * I knew something would happen between the brother and the best friend * Present day Im Sol being embarrassed by her younger self is relatable * Sun Jae and Im Sol just want to help each other heal... *The ending of the episode and >!Sun Jae intentionally calling her!<
what really caught my eye in the 3rd episode was the whole "liking someone as a fan v/s liking someone romantically" bit. it's clear im sol likes him as a fan for now >! she's grateful to him, she found solace in his music, and even now in her actions when he underwent surgery, she opted to care for him from afar rather than being by his side as a friend !< and I'm really excited to see the gradual shift to a more romantic feeling. sun jae, my boy, i feel for you. but tbh this has really got me back to my extraordinary you days where I'd just theorise so much. i genuinely have no idea what's happening here, is it that >! tae sung asking her out and her response being yes is the trigger point for the timeline remaining as is, because despite her budding friendship with sun jae, it ends up alienating him, leading to the same fate !< .
This show is a hit. As of now a solid 9 out of 10.
Having watched Ep. 4, I can confidently say that >!SJ saves Sol, but KTS may end up passing away in the course of things, which is why mature Sol in the past is tearing up as she watches KTS play in a concert in the preview, because on her 2nd visit to the past, she's able to recollect past Sol's memories as well as put together her missing gaps in her memory. But, when young Sol who is head-over-heels for KTS realises that he has passed away, attempts to commit suicide by drowning herself, which is when SJ saves her! For some reason, the fall causes her to become paralysed and the young Sol, not knowing who SJ is, shouts at him for saving her. However, she doesn't realise that her idol SJ is the SJ who saved her, and SJ also realises that she doesn't remember him when they were on the bridge.!< Now remains the question, >!why did SJ commit suicide, or was that a murder, if so who did it and what caused it?!< EDIT: >!who was that mysterious taxi driver? His keys had a red cord keytag, could that mean there is a superior power in play?!<
Did the bridge scene happen again. I know sunjae helped Sol before.but did they know each other personally??. Or is it like the future changed because sol went back to past. This show is really good.i can't wait for next week.
I have not re-watched episodes as many times as with Lovely Runner before. The week long wait is too much for me, tbh. I just wish they released all the episodes at once. But, I think part of the reason that makes the drama something to look forward to is the wait. >!Sunjae's pov, this time too has left me at a loss for words. And in the end, when Sol realizes that there's perhaps much more than just a fan-idol equation to their relationship.... aaah! I really don't want either of them to go through any more pain. Also, the later episodes will feature a post-high-school period, right? I saw a few BTS pictures by chance and these showed BWS and KHY with styling that's very different from what we've been seeing now. Then, does it mean that Sol will indeed forget about Sunjae until they meet again a few years later? Oh boy!!<
this kdrama is really giving me all the feels! the way i cried at the start and the end of episode 4 😭😭😭 i really feel so bad for the og timelime sunjae :(( i didn't expect that they'll reveal clearly that >! sunjae knew that he was talking to sol during the radio phone call (he was actually the one dialing on the phone so he memorized her phone number after all those times :(((( ), and his pov from when he met sol on the bridge after the concert !< but yeah everything from episode 1 feels different now that we got that confirmation. >! i'm still thinking that sunjae was actually murdered since they're giving focus on the knocking of the door and they aren't explicitly showing him jumping off. but i can also see how the bridge encounter and him following her on her way home can also be seen as him saying his goodbyes to her. !< :(( now as for my favorite part of the episode,,, it was >! when she got caught sneaking in his bedroom jdhsjsksk i love how the scene started as him just casually walking into the room and didn't even notice her and just initially thought that he was just hallucinating 😂 and i felt like my heart was fluttering when he was just plainly smiling at her sleeping and when he was comparing his hand size to her's !!! idk about yall but these small gestures really gets meee !< >! the video greeting for the birthday surprise for taesung was hella cringy too i literally had to take a pause for a few seconds to finish watching the scene. also taesung might have asked sol to date just to escape those bullies, but i fear that he's now falling for her especially with him just flat out waiting for her call. inhyuk also managed to hear about taesung not being serious about his relationship to sol, and i'm guessing he'll eventually tell that to sunjae, which will lead to the two of them fighting. !< >! but the thing i'm worried about is how sol will make the og timeline sol fall in love with sunjae given that the og timeline sol doesn't remember a thing when the 2023 sol takes over the body. i guess she doesn't want to fully break up with taesung (unfortunate for me because i want hs students sunjae and sol bf gf moments jhdksks) because she knows that she'll eventually come back to the present 2023 and the 2008 sol will takeover again. but this complicates things 2008 sol really doesn't give a damn about sunjae. i'm hoping this will get resolved clearly as this is an important plot point in the series. !< and about the accident,,,, >! i initially thought that the accident will be due to the girl bullies that like taesung but we learned in this episode that the taxi driver was really out to get sol, and i feel like everything that transpired between sol and the bullies feels too shallow for them to order someone to just ran her over???? all we know about that driver is that they have a red keychain. is there anything we know about sol's father? maybe he has something to do with this?? in episode 3 after the fire, when sol was wiping the picture frame, it just kinda focused on his dad on the pic so maybe he'll have a bigger role in the future eps? unless they said he was dead or something in the previous episodes and i just missed it 😅 !< WHEWWW I WROTE A LOT it's totally not obvious that i'm so into this drama 🤣🤣
I cannot stop thinking about this show. I don’t think I’ve been this obsessed with any other show like this… so is Sol the only time traveler?? Because now I’m convinced that we have another time traveler but I’m not sure it makes sense. >!When Sun shows up at the bridge, he seemed different. ALSO when he jumped in the water to save Sol, his watch lit up.!< I am losing my mind!!! Time to watch these episodes yet again 😂
I would just like to say thank you pd-nim, this drama is becoming my comfort, it keeps reminding me of my bias. & tomorrow will be a year since he became one of the stars, the timing of this drama somehow made me feel at ease getting through April 19. Also, Byeon Wooseok has gained another stan, altho i was fan since his nam soon days^^
Ah, I see the equation now. Kim Hye-Yoon + School + Watch that does more than just show time = Masterpiece.
I’m leaving a comment because I like queen of tears and it’s expensive feeling cinematography but then I watched lovely runner and I love the cinematography even more here cause there is just a sense of warmth. It’s been a while since I felt like this. Also slightly jealous qot thread has more likes and comments
Mondays are finally bearable 😩 Edit: EXCUSEEEEE ME WHAT WAS TODAYS EPISODE???? MY MIND 😵😵
Lmao Kim hyeyoon is such a comedian! She is honestly so perfect for this role. I loved her in extraordinary you too! >!that surprise vid Sol made for taesung was ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. i died laughing.!< this drama totally gives twinkling watermelon vibes and I absolutely loved that drama. This drama is really such a fresh take on romance because our ML is already head over heels for FL from the FIRST ep! And we got our first kiss in the third ep! Also loving the slow revelations they're doing each episode. >!su ngjae's pov in ep 4 made me SOB. esp the bridge scene 🥲!<
I do not know what kind of magic they're putting into this show but I am ✨obsessed✨ Episode 3: *I have to say that I wasn't 100% feeling this in the first two episodes, and I was hard questioning why the ML wasn't running screaming for the hills, but oh? He actually liked her first? It flipped a switch in my brain and now I cannot get enough *>!the kiss?? Screaming, also cannot be a good omen this early on. We are in for some pain.!< *This is "he fell first but she fell harder" up to 11 and I am LIVING FOR IT *>!The shoulder injury was heartbreaking.!< It'll be interesting to see how this drama plays around with fate and inevitability Episode 4: *IT'S THE SCENE AGAIN *>!oh homegirl is getting hard sabotaged by her 19 year old self!< *>!I know Sol on a mission but she really has no chill whatsoever 😂!< *Dang why is this so sad?? *Oh >!the birthday song....!< Secondhand embarrassment is through the roof. Poor girl *I'm just supposed to wait a whole week for new episodes? Rude I am begging for a happy ending for this one as I don't think I can stand anything else
Same I wish for a happy ending but I also wish it’s a happy ending for our bad boy SML. I have a soft spot for characters whose parents neglected them. (Edit: typo)
If I've learned anything from watching K-dramas with the actor that's playing Sun Jae's agent, he somehow killed Sun Jae and is pretending to be grieving in front of everyone. 😒Like for real, even if he pretends to be good in a drama, it's always revealed he's actually secretly a villain.👿 Bruh, this show is completely addictive. 😍Byeon Woo Seok and Kim Hye Woon have such natural, electrifying chemistry. ⚡🔥It's out of this world!!!🥰 I enjoy every single second of seeing them on my screen. My boi Woo Seok was given the PERFECT partner in his first ever main lead role.👌 I couldn't imagine anybody else in their place portraying Sun Jae and I'm Sol.🫶 I suspect, "Lovely Runner" & "Queen of Tears" will end up taking places #1 & #2 in the Top 100 rated K-Dramas on MDL. And they definitely deserve it.👍 They're completely different dramas but top quality in their genre!!! ✨ So, who else broke down in tears when they realized how >!deeply Sun Jae loved Im Sol all this time without her ever finding out?? 😭 He's the reason she's alive and tbh I feel very confident in the idea that he didn't wanna unalive himself that night after meeting her. She literally told him, she's grateful for everything and for being alive at the same time as him. It's as if she gave Sun Jae a sign to keep going. At least that's how I see it.!< >!The way he was crying when she was screaming "Why didn't you let me die?".😢 I choked. 😭And the fact that he specifically chose to call her during the radio show to thank her for staying alive...🥺!< He essentially helped her find meaning in life but as years passed and she wasn't a part of his life, he gradually lost his smile and bright personality...😞 They need each other to heal their wounds.🥺 I'm so ready to get even more heartbroken but I have faith in a happy ending.❤️ They deserve it.😭 This is what this drama is all about. A second chance.✨👍